nonoccurrence

Examples

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• Role-playing, in this perspective, becomes distinctly nonheroic; the focus is on nonoccurrence, on that which literally did not take place.

  Academic text (1993)

• When multiple student leaver outcomes exist, the nonoccurrence of one event does not "imply nonoccurrence of all others—it only refers to the nonoccurrence of this specific event" (Singer & Willet, 2003, p. 590).

  Academic text (2011)

• However, this nonoccurrence is hardly sufficient proof.

  Academic text (2003)

• The less motivated and resolved ones would not have chosen to initiate a conflict, producing cases where the dog did not bark (that is, the nonoccurrence of the expected attack, representing successful deterrence).

  Academic text (2003)

• The nonoccurrence of rain this summer has worried many farmers about their crops.

• Due to the nonoccurrence of any accidents, the event was deemed a success.

• The nonoccurrence of the expected meeting left everyone confused about the next steps.

Synonyms

A

absence

vsnonoccurrence

216 2.1

A lack of someone or something that should be there

is about an expected event that did not start as planned

I

inexistence

vsnonoccurrence

8.9

A state when something is not there or real

is about an expected action that did not begin or continue

Antonyms

O

occurrence

116 3.6

Something that happens, often an event or incident

How Often

infrequency

1 8.3

nonoccurrence

7.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology