nonequation

English

Etymology

non- +‎ equation

Noun

nonequation (uncountable)

1. Absence of equation; not equating things.
   • 1991, Kenneth Cragg, The Arab Christian: A History in the Middle East, page 66:

     It was in this way that the times of arabicization became involved in the issue of faith and works, of the equation — or nonequation — of the divine will and the human will […]

   • Quoted in 2013, Anat Pick, Guinevere Narraway, Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human (page 220)

     In this sense, the literary text saves the earth by disclosing the nonequation of word and thing, poem and place.