uncelebration

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A memorial of something bad.

   • Discussing Men at Arms, the first volume of his later war trilogy, Waugh explained that it "was a kind of uncelebration, a history of Guy Crouchback's disillusion with the army.
   • In her essay, she took her cue from the conflicted uncelebrations surrounding the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's contact with the Americas.
   • He and Bobby Clark had a lot in common, and he was first on the guest list to Bobby's vets-only annual uncelebration of the Tet Offensive.
2. 2

   A celebration that lacks any celebratory feeling or actions.

   • In contrast to all the whooppee that surrounded the Corvette's Silver Anniversary the observation of its 10th year of existence in 1962 had all the trappings of an uncelebration.
   • And the idea of a celebration that celebrated only her, or a celebration that celebrated only celebration, struck her as being cold, narcissistic, and ultimately sterile; a joyless uncelebration in fact.
   • If the Osage or Wazhazhe reference scheme is celebratory, not to say mythic and historic, the follow-on Las Vegas reference scheme is all uncelebration.

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