Usually means: Event anticipated but does not occur.
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  1. nonevent: Merriam-Webster
  2. nonevent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nonevent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nonevent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nonevent: Vocabulary.com
  6. nonevent: Wordnik
  7. nonevent: Wiktionary
  8. nonevent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. nonevent: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. nonevent: Dictionary.com
  11. nonevent: Rhymezone
  12. nonevent: FreeDictionary.org
  13. nonevent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. nonevent: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  An anticipated event that does not occur, or one that has a disappointing anticlimax.

Similar:
unhappening, non-event, nonhappening, venture, nontriumph, nonaccomplishment, non-occurring, nonmeeting, nonachievement, nonresult, more...

Opposite:
event, occurrence, happening

Types:
anticlimax, letdown, fizzle, flop, bust, dud, more...

Adjectives:
virtual, political, such, total, biggest, complete, relative, significant



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Similar:
unhappening, non-event, nonhappening, venture, nontriumph, nonaccomplishment, non-occurring, nonmeeting, nonachievement, nonresult, more...

Opposite:
event, occurrence, happening

Types:
anticlimax, letdown, fizzle, flop, bust, dud, more...

Adjectives:
virtual, political, such, total, biggest, complete, relative, significant



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