Nonsentence

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An utterance that is not a sentence.

    "Those strings in the language are called sentences; the strings not in the language are called nonsentences."

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"Those strings in the language are called sentences; the strings not in the language are called nonsentences."

Etymology

From non- + sentence.

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