nondog
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editnondog (plural nondogs)
- (philosophy) That which is not a dog.
- 1980, Alfred Lee Baldwin, Theories of child development:
- Thus, for example, we can divide the class of mammals into dogs and nondogs.
- 2004, Julie Yingling, A lifetime of communication: transformation through relational dialogues:
- In essence, without the notion of nondog qualities against which to compare inequalities, we could have no concept of dog.