What does unhappening mean?
Unhappening means present participle and gerund of unhappen.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of unhappen.
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...
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.
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.
The next few months were dark and unhappening for Gautam.
Use unhappening when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unhappening means present participle and gerund of unhappen.
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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...
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