noun suggested
un·HAP·pen·ing
The removal of an occurred event from the record; an incident officially declared not to have taken place while the people who lived it remain.
The incident was resolved by unhappening.
Etymologyun- + happen + -ing, plain reversal as in undo, untie, unsay.
NotePairs with the unhappened — harm that never occurred because someone prevented it. The inflection carries the distinction: -ed never was, -ing was and then was not. Prior art nearby: memory-holing, unpersoning, retcon. This is the administrative case — the record amended, the bodies unamended.
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