nonreading

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ reading.

Adjective

nonreading (not comparable)

1. Not reading.

Noun

nonreading (usually uncountable, plural nonreadings)

1. The act of not reading; a failure to read.
   • 2001, Dale J. Pratt, Signs of Science, page 33:

     Their slanted representations, and even the selective acceptance practised by scientists who were also devout Catholics, produced a variety of readings and even nonreadings of Darwin's texts which obscured the science behind the theory.

   • 2007 February 24, Alan Riding, “Read It? No, but You Can Skim a Few Pages and Fake It”, in New York Times‎:

     Then why, he was asked, did he write a book that seems to justify nonreading?

Alternative forms

• non-reading