1. a person who lacks distinctive personality traits or interesting qualities
2. in computing, a code point that is not intended to represent a character
Usage: technical

Examples

• He was such a noncharacter that people forgot his name minutes after meeting him.
• The bland protagonist was criticized as a noncharacter with no memorable traits.
• She felt like a noncharacter in her own life story.
• The Unicode standard defines certain code points as noncharacters.
• Programmers must handle noncharacter values properly in text processing.
• The software rejected the input because it contained noncharacter sequences.