Noncontroversy

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Lack of controversy. uncountable

    "Therefore, to tread the line between quality on the one hand and noncontroversy on the other is to tread a very thin line."

  2. 2
    Something that is not controversial, especially one that someone is trying to make seem like a controversy. countable

    "One might ask Father Greeley to explain to those whose intellectual freedom has been limited in the name of orthodoxy, how they were involved in a "noncontroversy.""

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"Therefore, to tread the line between quality on the one hand and noncontroversy on the other is to tread a very thin line."

Etymology

From non- + controversy.

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