non-binarity

See also: nonbinarity

English

Alternative forms

nonbinarity

Etymology

From non-binary +‎ -ity or non- +‎ binarity.

Noun

non-binarity (uncountable)

The quality of being non-binary (not binary); absence of binarity.
Synonym: non-binariness
- 1975, General Linguistics:
  Beyond Ladefoged's arguments for non-binarity (1970), I feel that the human nervous system is not constructed in a way that it could use binarity easily, either in perception or production.
- 1990, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, Plume:
  Through his use of ellipsis, understatement, unspecified agency, and non-binarity, Johnson is thus attempting to bring about a change in the status of the Negro without explicitly acknowledging or processing conflict and dispossession.
- 1998, Claus Fröhlich, M. Huber, S.K. Solanki, Rudolf von Steiger, Solar Composition and its Evolution — from Core to Corona: Proceedings of an Issi Workshop 26-30 January 1998, Bern, Switzerland, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 419:
  As regards its particular mass and age, and probably its non-binarity, "anthropic" explanations may seem in place. The possible tendency for the Sun, as compared with similar stars, to be somewhat rich in iron relative to other elements […]
- 2003, Josep Quer i Carbonell, Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected Papers from 'Going Romance,' Amsterdam, 6-8 December 2001, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 32:
  On the non-binarity of the null subject parameter
- 2019, I. M. Roca, Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 13:
  Nor can we maintain the converse position that a defining property of parameters is non-binarity, as there appear to be some, most notably the directionality parameters, which by their very nature are binary.