noncontroversy

Noun

noncontroversy (countable and uncountable, plural noncontroversies)

1. (uncountable) Lack of controversy.
   • Therefore, to tread the line between quality on the one hand and noncontroversy on the other is to tread a very thin line.1960, United States. Federal Communications Commission, Interim Report by the Office of Network Study
   • In case the public was not ready for this indictment of the United States presence, the narrative style at least bred familiarity and noncontroversy.1995, Jeremy M. Devine, Vietnam at 24 frames a second, page 136
2. (countable) Something that is not controversial, especially one that someone is trying to make seem like a controversy.
   • One might ask Father Greeley to explain to those whose intellectual freedom has been limited in the name of orthodoxy, how they were involved in a "noncontroversy."1968, Joseph A. Scimecca, Roland Damiano, Crisis at St. John's
   • I see this as a noncontroversy. I think that the issue here is the variation in inherited degree of susceptibility, and I think that would be accepted by both of you.1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works, Proceedings of the Conference on Health Effects of Air Pollutants, page 682