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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
non-event
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Carver's testimony turned out to be a non-event.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
non-event

"unimportant or disappointing event," 1962, from non- + event.

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non-event

n. A situation which, contrary to expectation, turn out to be uninteresting, unimportant or unexciting; an anticlimax.

Usage examples of "non-event".

However, the perpetual non-event system of GDP was recovering from the burst of interestingness, and enhancing dullness levels to the point of human endurance.

Sometimes things can fail to happen in quite impressive ways, but as far as non-events went this one just couldn’t compete.

Sometimes things can fail to happen in quite impressive ways, but as far as non-events went this one just couldn't compete.