nonencounter

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ encounter.

Noun

nonencounter (plural nonencounters)

1. Failure to encounter something or somebody.
   • 2013, Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower, Garry Tregidga, Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity, page 159:

     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.

   • 2010, Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes:

     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.