nonbinarity

nonbinarity

English

Noun

nonbinarity (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of non-binarity
   • 1992, Heinz J. Giegerich, English Phonology: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 213:

     Assimilation : optionality versus nonbinarity, and natural classes

   • 1992, Susan Derwin, Professor Susan Derwin, The Ambivalence of Form: Lukács, Freud, and the Novel, Johns Hopkins University Press

     The namer's power to authorize the pairing of word and thing underscores the nonbinarity of the sign even as it insures that pairing.

   • 1997, Ira Livingston, Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity, U of Minnesota Press (→ISBN), page 2:

     "Innocence" here takes the form of a nonbinarity between binarity (day and night divided by the punctual moment of sunset) and nonbinarity (the fading light in which the moment is embedded, making the boundary negotiable).

   • 2007, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Race Or Ethnicity?: On Black and Latino Identity

     None of the norms of identification for sex need change much for someone who is clearly male or clearly female when they discover the nonbinarity of biological sex.

   • 2015, Angela Dean, Max Morris, John Stufken, Derek Bingham, Handbook of Design and Analysis of Experiments, CRC Press (→ISBN), page 122:

     Nonbinarity can also enter into MV-optimal GGDDs with s>1, as demonstrated next. Though neither binarity nor equal replication is required, Theorem 3.8(i) does imply binarity when p = 0.