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say it: NAH-ni-vent
nonevent is a noun meaning "an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected". It carries one recorded sense.
an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nonevent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.