nonappearance

1. 1.

   failure to appear (especially as at court)

   Broadernonattendance

Other forms of nonappearance

plural

nonappearances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nonappearance

What does nonappearance mean?

nonappearance means "failure to appear (especially as at court)".

How many syllables are in nonappearance?

nonappearance has 5 syllables and divides as no-nap-pe-a-rance under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.