Nonencounter

Quick meaning: Nonencounter is a noun meaning Failure to encounter something or somebody.

Meaning

Failure to encounter something or somebody.

Example Sentences

Here, Cornish difference, particularly in the far west, is represented as originating in the insular, primitive and unworldly, and paradoxically reinforced through nonencounters with Islam.

Now came a series of nonencounters with his supposed boss. Nuruddin kept arranging meetings; Saladin kept making excuses not to be there: his father was sick, he himself was feeling under the weather—it was always something.

Word Forms

• nonencounters

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonattempt, nonintersection, nonhappening, non-occurring, nondiscovery, nonconfrontation.

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