Definition of nonliterary
: not literary
In the work of novelists who have tasted other occupations, one generally finds an inverse correlation over the years between degree of literary success and degree of contact with nonliterary reality.— James Lardner nonliterary sources
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The first known use of nonliterary was in 1850
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