Definition of "nonreferential" [nonreferential]

• Not referential in character or style (adjective)

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• "The type of meditation used is called "nonreferential compassion," and involves the meditator focusing on unlimited compassion and loving kindness toward all living beings."
• "Eight Buddhist adepts and 10 volunteers who had had a crash course in meditation engaged in the form of meditation called nonreferential compassion."
• "They would be as incomprehensible to them as the most elusive lines of John Ashbery or the most resolutely nonreferential L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poems."