happening (noun)

  • 61unavoidable casualty — noun a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God • Syn: ↑act of God, ↑force majeure, ↑vis major, ↑inevitable accident • Hypernyms: ↑calamity …

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  • 62current events — noun plural but singular or plural in construction : contemporary developments in local, national, or world affairs; also : the organized study of such developments * * * current events, news or a discussion of news of the present time. * * *… …

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  • 63storm warning — noun 1. a. : a display of storm signals b. : a notification (as a radio report) that gives warning of an approaching storm 2. : a happening that warns of a difficult or involved state of affairs lying ahead the storm warnings he sees for… …

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  • 64undersense — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: under (III) + sense 1. : an inner awareness : subconsciousness 2. : an underlying sense or meaning the mind has to make no effort to get the undersense of what is happening J.C.Powys * * * …

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  • 65credibility gap — noun 1. a. : lack of trust a special credibility gap is likely to open between the generations Kenneth Keniston b. : lack of believability a credibility gap created by contradictory official statements Samuel Ellenport 2. : dis …

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  • 66accident — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin accident , accidens nonessential quality, chance, from present participle of accidere to happen, from ad + cadere to fall more at chance Date: 14th century 1. a. an unforeseen and… …

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  • 67event — noun Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin eventus, from evenire to happen, from e + venire to come more at come Date: 1549 1. a. archaic outcome b. the final outcome or determination of a legal action c. a postulated… …

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  • 68occurrence — noun Date: 1539 1. something that occurs < a startling occurrence > 2. the action or instance of occurring < the repeated occurrence of petty theft in the locker room > Synonyms: occurrence, event, incident, episode, circumstance mean something&#8230; …

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  • 69symptom — noun Etymology: Late Latin symptomat , symptoma, from Greek symptōmat , symptōma happening, attribute, symptom, from sympiptein to happen, from syn + piptein to fall more at feather Date: 1541 1. a. subjective evidence of disease or physical&#8230; …

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  • 70unbirth — noun a) The absence of birth; failure to be born. So, youre like somebody grieving over the unbirth of a gnat when theres thousands, getting burned and blasted and... all sorts of things are happening to them... b) A paraphilia in which the&#8230; …

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