Meaning of noncharacter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. That which is not a character (unit of text).
2. One of 66 code points (the 32 code points U+FDD0–U+FDEF, plus the last two code points—U+...FFFE and U+...FFFF—of each of the 17 planes) which are guaranteed never to be assigned and are intended for process-internal use.
3. That which is not a character, as in literature.
4. A fictional character in a piece of literature or other media that lacks distinct personality traits, depth, or development.

Examples

“Like the noncharacter at the center of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the screen's nonimage and the man it effaces enable other forms of repression, […]”

“She’s a non-character hyped up to sell merchandise.”

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