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unhappenings

unhappenings is the plural of unhappening.

Meaning of unhappening

Noun

unhappening (plural unhappenings)

  1. (rare) A happening that fails to occur; a nonevent.
    • 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

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Questions about unhappenings

What is unhappenings the plural of?
Unhappenings is the plural of unhappening.

Words near unhappenings in the dictionary

  1. unhaphazardly
  2. unhappen
  3. unhappenable
  4. unhappened
  5. unhappening
  6. unhappenings
  7. unhappens
  8. unhappied
  9. unhappier
  10. unhappies
  11. unhappiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhappenings (page history and authors); unhappening (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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