non-

Etymology 1
From, from and , both from , from , from , see. Merged with and reinforced by, from and , from , , from.

Prefix

 * 1)  Not, the negation of the root word (a quality).
 * is a person who is not aboriginal, is a substance that is not abrasive,  is not abstract
 * 1)  Absence, the absence of the root (a quantity).
 * is absence of accountability, is lack of acceleration,  is the absence of action; failure to act
 * 1)  Avoiding an action.
 * is the practice of avoiding mental constructs during daily life, is a neglect or refusal to accept,  is tending to avoid accumulation
 * 1)  Neutral in quality.
 * is a spoken accent that is neutral and undistinctive; is having the centromere near the middle, and thus having roughly equal-sized arms;  is an unaccented beat or syllable, as in music or poetry
 * is the practice of avoiding mental constructs during daily life, is a neglect or refusal to accept,  is tending to avoid accumulation
 * 1)  Neutral in quality.
 * is a spoken accent that is neutral and undistinctive; is having the centromere near the middle, and thus having roughly equal-sized arms;  is an unaccented beat or syllable, as in music or poetry

Usage notes

 * may be attached to nouns, adjectives , adverbs , or—infrequently—even verbs.
 * may be joined to a word with a hyphen, standard in British usage as evidenced by OED's typically including only the hyphenated forms, but some OED entries are spelled without hyphen only. In American usage, is often joined without a hyphen. (For example,  is relatively common, but, referring to a primarily British sport, is rare.) Some  words rarely or never use a hyphen (such as ). By contrast,  is almost always spelled without a hyphen. GPO manual item 6.29. recommends to spell non- prefixed words without a hyphen unless an overriding consideration applies.
 * For combinations with capitalized words such as proper nouns and some adjectives, hyphen is almost always used, e.g. or . This matches GPO manual recommendation.
 * Semantically, suggests objective quality and logical opposition (hence ungradable), whereas  suggests subjective quality and polar/diametric opposition (often gradable).
 * Meaning "not" in phrases taken from Latin and some other languages, is a separate word and is not hyphenated: non compos mentis, persona non grata.
 * As is a living and highly productive prefix, the list of words having the prefix  is practically unlimited: Wiktionary currently has over 9000 such word forms. It is particularly common in the sciences.

Synonyms

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Derived terms








Translations

 * Afrikaans: nie-
 * Armenian:, չ-, ան-
 * Azerbaijani: qeyri-, olmayan
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, mimo-
 * Dutch: niet-
 * Esperanto: ne-
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: არა-, არ-
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ido: ne-
 * Irish: mí-, neamh-
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kapampangan: e-
 * Korean:, ,
 * Latin:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mì-, neo-
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology 1
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Etymology
From, from , from , from , see. Merged with and reinforced by, from and , from , , from.