nondiscussion

English

Etymology

non- +‎ discussion

Noun

nondiscussion (countable and uncountable, plural nondiscussions)

1. Discussion that is so fruitless as to be equivalent to having had no discussion.
   • 1967, Franz Schurmann, David Milton, Orville Schell, The China reader:

     So their discussion is tantamount to nondiscussion. This is the first reason why there is no use (in having a parliament)...

   • 1998, Peter Horn, Clinical ethics casebook:

     Without recognition of the importance of balancing, discussions quickly deteriorate into nondiscussions; they become instead assertions by each side...

   • 2007 January 7, Shalom Auslander, “Love Child”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Farther up his rear end, the nondiscussion turned to environmentalism: Save the Earth!