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non-story

non-story is the alternative form of nonstory.

Meaning of nonstory

Noun

nonstory (plural nonstories)

  1. Something that is considered to be not a real story, or not newsworthy
    • Some said the article was a mean-spirited, unnecessarily damaging nonstory.2009 February 27, Gail Swainson, “Champions horse show out to pasture”, in Toronto Star

Forms of non-story

pluralnon-stories

Origin of non-story

From non- + story.

Questions about non-story

What is non-story the alternative form of?
Non-story is the alternative form of nonstory.

Words near non-story in the dictionary

  1. non-stop
  2. non-stop decay
  3. non-stopping
  4. non-stops
  5. non-stories
  6. non-story
  7. non-streamlined
  8. non-stretchable
  9. non-strict
  10. non-strike
  11. non-striker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-story (page history and authors); nonstory (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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