non-event

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See also: nonevent

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ event.

Noun

non-event (plural non-events)

  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.

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