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non-event

non-event noun: a situation which, contrary to expectation, turned out to be uninteresting, unimportant or unexciting; an anticlimax.

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.

non-event meaning in Kannada

non-event in Kannada

ಅಮುಖ್ಯ ಘಟನೆ, ಅವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಘಟನೆ

Forms of non-event

pluralnon-events

Origin of non-event

From non- + event.

Questions about non-event

What does non-event mean?
Non-event means a situation which, contrary to expectation, turned out to be uninteresting, unimportant or unexciting; an anticlimax.
What is non-event in Kannada?
Non-event in Kannada is ಅಮುಖ್ಯ ಘಟನೆ, ಅವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಘಟನೆ. See Non-event meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is non-event?
Non-event is a noun.
What is the plural of non-event?
The plural of non-event is non-events.

Words near non-event in the dictionary

  1. non-esterified fatty acids
  2. non-Estonian
  3. non-Euclidean
  4. non-Euclidean geometries
  5. non-Euclidean geometry
  6. non-event
  7. non-events
  8. non-evidentiary
  9. non-evolutional
  10. non-evolutionary
  11. non-exchanger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-event (page history and authors); non-event (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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