English Explanatory Dictionary

non-event

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A situation which, contrary to expectation, turned out to be uninteresting, unimportant or unexciting; an anticlimax.
  2. A publicised event which does not take place.

Word forms

non-event non-events

Etymology

From non- + event.

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