nonrevolution

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ revolution.

Noun

nonrevolution (uncountable)

1. Absence or failure of political revolution.
   • 2007 September 30, Joseph Ellis, “Revolutionary Road”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Winik’s second story line, which advances a more unconventional claim, is that the revolutions in America and France, and the nonrevolution or reaction in Russia, were all of a piece, that they represented different enactments of the same overarching plot.