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/ˌnɒnᵻkˈspɪərɪəns/, /ˌnɒnɛkˈspɪərɪəns/, U.S. /ˌnɑnɪkˈspɪri(ə)ns/, /ˌnɑnɛkˈspɪri(ə)ns/ 1. An absence or lack of experience; a failure to experience. rare before 19th cent.
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1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. K8 Rash man that dost inferre negation From thy dead eare, or non-experience.
1876 J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals 48 We come upon a set of facts which depend upon our quasi-sensation of the absent, or upon our non-experience.
1916 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 13 160 Pain has, as compared with Pleasure, only a secondary or borrowed existence. It exists only in so far as non-experience or inexperience can be said to exist.
1996 Afr. Amer. Rev. 30 532/2 Richard's non-experience of his own pain..is to be related to the wounds of slavery.
2. Originally: a thing which is not experienced. Later: an unimportant or unexciting experience (cf. non- prefix 2b). Cf. non-event n. 2.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > non-event
non-experience1939
non-event1962
1939 Sociometry 2 11 The clinical observer has an amnesia for certain things which may remain a total non-experience.
1969 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 22 Mar. 54 Nog is a novel about a non-hero who goes through a number of non-experiences, arriving at a non-conclusion.
1998 Yale French Stud. No. 93. 209 The Song of the Sirens..is also a nonexperience, a nonevent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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