unhappening

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unhappen

plural unhappenings

1. rareA happening that fails to occur; a nonevent.

   British aid to Bulgarian partisans was defined, by silence, as a non-event, an unhappening. No official statement acknowledging this aid has ever been made.

   1997, Edward Palmer Thompson, Beyond the frontier: the politics of a failed mission, Bulgaria 1944, page 43

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   The stage was set for the Greening of America, but by lunchtime of the first day, the meeting had dissolved into an unhappening, as shouting matches broke out among deep ecologists, feminists, animal liberationists, anarchists...

   1990, Stephanie Mills, Tom Brokaw, Jeanne Carstensen, In praise of nature, page 87

comparative more unhappening · superlative most unhappening

1. IndiaUneventful.

   The next few months were dark and unhappening for Gautam.

   2022, Kumar Kanhaiya, Gold Star, page 30

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   Next day, it was time for us to leave and believe me, the return journey was the most unhappening journey I had experienced in my entire life. […] The entire 45 minutes of the journey were devoted in looking towards my QUEEN, only to get a reaction.

   2017, Grahadish Sharma, Love Does Cost Sometimes: A World of Platonic Love, page 67