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Definition of Nonevent
1. Noun. An anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected.
Definition of Nonevent
1. Noun. An anticipated event that does not occur, or one that is a disappointing anticlimax ¹
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Definition of Nonevent
1. an expected event that does not occur [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonevent
Literary usage of Nonevent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sas/stat 9.1 User's Guide by SAS Institute, Virginia Clark (2004)
"For binary response data with event and nonevent categories, if your event category
has a higher Ordered Value, then the nonevent is modeled and, ..."
2. Defense Policy in the Reagan Administration edited by William P. Snyder, James Brown (1997)
"... low level of terrorist engagement with US interests in the Far East and Africa.
Another significant nonevent was the uneventful course of the 1984 Los ..."
3. Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot by James B. Stockdale (1995)
"And then, contrast that 1964 public reaction to a nonevent to that 1973 reaction
to a real event, to a magnificently handled ..."
4. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"Names can be evaluated using the look-up-value procedure from Chapter 8; substituting
a value for a name in a name AST is either a nonevent or a real ..."
5. Model of Community Policing: The Singapore Story by David H. Bayley (1996)
"A crucial nonevent might be attributed to NPP's—the absence of racial strife in
Singapore during the 1980's. This cannot be determined empirically, ..."
6. Winning Florida: How the Bush Team Fought the Battle by Robert Zelnick (2001)
"Legally speaking, however, Beck would later call it a "nonevent." Recounts, after
all, were not the central issue. Gore had requested and received recounts ..."
7. Postcommunism: Four Perspectives by Michael Mandelbaum (1996)
"It is difficult or perhaps impossible to explain a nonevent, the shoe that did
not drop, the time bomb that failed to go off. And tomorrow's news may force ..."
8. Buckling of Bars, Plates, and Shells by Robert M. Jones (2006)
"The unfortunate aspect is that we are trying to quantify an obviously ill-defined
nonevent! The results of load-deflection experiments are interpreted here ..."
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