non sequitur
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9.7
- noun
- /nɑn ˈsɛkwɪtər/
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non sequitur
- He made a statement about pizza that was a complete non sequitur in the context of our discussion about movies.
So I should get married is a a complete non sequitur.
- So I should get married is a a complete non sequitur.
- Hold up, that is a complete non sequitur.
- The other reason his argument is absurd is that it is a non sequitur.
- That to me is the non sequitur, the idea that this relationship must be important because I still have feelings for it.
- But to claim that that means that the institutions that are in place are salvageable or that they should be salvage, I, I think that's a non sequitur.
Examples
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But this conclusion is a non sequitur.
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That was a complete non sequitur.
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That to me is the non sequitur, the idea that this relationship must be important because I still have feelings for it.
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That is a non sequitur.
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In fact, a family would be a non sequitur on our planet, as it would on most others.
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Do I really have to point out how much of a non sequitur this argument is?
Blog text (18) -
And that discount is a non sequitur in the environmental discussion.
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A loss of faith in the Atlantic alliance would be the greatest non sequitur.
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That's the only non sequitur in the whole program.
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But saying it affects authorial income is a non sequitur in its purest form.
Blog text (5)
Antonyms
How Logical
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Surface Forms
Morphology
non + sequitur
‘Non sequitur’ is a borrowed Latin phrase whose parts ('non', 'sequitur') are not recognisable English lexemes for an average B1 learner, and the provided constituent definitions are absent. Because the phrase functions as a conventionalized, language-specific label meaning 'a conclusion that does not follow,' its meaning would not be reliably derivable from the given constituents by B1 learners, so it is opaque.
Etymology
Non sequitur comes from Latin: its parts are non ('not') and sequitur ('follows'). Imagine someone telling a story and then suddenly saying something that does not follow the earlier idea; that's why non sequitur means 'a statement that does not follow from what was said before'.