non-coming

English

Alternative forms

• noncoming

Etymology

From Middle English non comyng, noun comyng, equivalent to none (“no”, adjective) +‎ coming.

Noun

non-coming (countable and uncountable, plural non-comings)

1. A lack or absence of coming; failure to come
   • 1889, Alfred John Horwood, Luke Owen Pike, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third - Issue 5, page 28:

     […] and inasmuch as the husband does not now come, which non-coming shall be adjudged a default, we pray that they be distrained to attorn.

   • 2013, Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names, page 87:

     This poem is about non-coming and non-going.

   • 2014, Clark Lunberry, Sites of Performance, page 4:

     Beginning at the end, ending at the beginning, the comings and goings—the non-comings, the non-goings— of Estragon and Vladimir settling onto boots, and swollen feet; a very precise picture of pain.