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单词 non-reading
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non-readingn.

Brit. /nɒnˈriːdɪŋ/, U.S. /nɑnˈridɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, reading n.1
Etymology: < non- prefix + reading n.1
Disinclination or inability to read; an instance of not reading.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] > disinclination to read
non-reading1893
aliteracy1968
1893 Catholic World Oct. 151 For a successful solving of the question of compulsory reading or non-reading we of the Ozanam Reading Circle take the palm.
1961 Times 24 Aug. 11/2 There is doctrinaire non-reading, line-drawing, refusal to read.
1985 Marketing & Media Decisions (Nexis) Oct. 73 Actual observed reading and non-reading in public places of pre-publication and post-publication issues.
1989 B. Kahan Child Care Res. 28 Social workers responsible for eight-year-olds should see non-reading at this age as a danger sign and a precursor of learning and behaviour problems.

Compounds

attributive. Denoting something which does not require or involve reading.
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1954 Amer. Q. 6 320 These religious works appeal to the prevailing needs, desires, and interests that the widest reading public also holds during its non-reading hours.
1973 Linguistics & Lang. Behavior Abstr. 7 615/2 Illiterates are often able to do fairly well on certain types of objective reading test because they employ non-reading techniques to figure out right answers.
1998 Jrnl. Learning Disabilities (Electronic ed.) 31 Interactive programs may actually impede their progress by encouraging them to engage in nonreading activities.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

non-readingadj.

Brit. /nɒnˈriːdɪŋ/, U.S. /nɑnˈridɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, reading adj.
Etymology: < non- prefix + reading adj.
1. Cambridge University. Designating a student whose major course of study is not mathematics; (hence) designating a college attended by such students. Obsolete (historical in later use).
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1797 Monthly Mag. Apr. 266/1 All those undergraduates, who.., either from an aversion to a rigid course of mathematical studies, or a predilection for the pursuits more connected with the professions they are designed for, make mathematics their inferior pursuit, however extensive their studies may be in general literature, are dubbed non-reading men.
1824 Gradus ad Cantabr. 77 Non reading men may be divided into several classes;..loungers, dandies, bucks, bloods, Johns, Nimrods, and many others.
1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University (ed. 2) 335 Non-reading men..play for the lowest possible (sixpenny) points.
1893 Dict. National Biogr. 34 381/1 As fellow-commoner in a ‘non-reading college’ he was excused from lectures.
2. That does not or cannot read.In quot. 1957: that does not read music.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [adjective]
unletteredc1390
unliterate1548
illiterate1556
abecedary1589
letterless1605
illiterated1610
illitered1612
clerkless1653
analphabet1654
analphabetical1676
unalphabeted1799
non-reading1848
analphabetic1876
unalphabetic1883
society > communication > reading > reader > [adjective] > of a person disinclined to read
non-reading1848
aliterate1966
1848 Commerc. Rev. South & West Jan. 85 That pioneer journal, to which..we are indebted for more than the non-reading portion of the farmers of the present day have any idea of.
1907 Mod. Lang. Notes 22 83/1 To many..the poet of Rydal is a great non-reading seer of nature, uninfluenced by books.
1957 M. Sterns Story of Jazz xv. 178 The role of the improvising—and usually non-reading—musician became almost heroic.
1993 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. c1/6 The problem will come when the boomers stop buying and the non-reading under-24 generation picks up the reins.
2001 Cosmopolitan (Electronic ed.) 1 Sept. We will donate 15 percent of sales to Literacy Partners, Inc., an organization that helps millions of nonreading women gain the literacy skills they need.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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