unhappening

English

Verb

unhappening

1. present participle and gerund of unhappen

Noun

unhappening (plural unhappenings)

1. (rare) A happening that fails to occur; a nonevent.
   • 1990, Stephanie Mills, Tom Brokaw, Jeanne Carstensen, In praise of nature, page 87:

     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...

   • 1997, Edward Palmer Thompson, Beyond the frontier: the politics of a failed mission, Bulgaria 1944, page 43:

     British aid to Bulgarian partisans was defined, by silence, as a non-event, an unhappening. No official statement acknowledging this aid has ever been made.

Adjective

unhappening (comparative more unhappening, superlative most unhappening)

1. (India) Uneventful.
   • 2017, Grahadish Sharma, Love Does Cost Sometimes: A World of Platonic Love, page 67:

     Next day, it was time for us to leave and believe me, the return journey was the most unhappening journey I had experienced in my entire life. […] The entire 45 minutes of the journey were devoted in looking towards my QUEEN, only to get a reaction.

   • 2022, Kumar Kanhaiya, Gold Star, page 30:

     The next few months were dark and unhappening for Gautam.