noncontroversy

English

Etymology

non- +‎ controversy

Noun

noncontroversy (countable and uncountable, plural noncontroversies)

1. (uncountable) Lack of controversy.
   • 1960, United States. Federal Communications Commission, Interim Report by the Office of Network Study:

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

   • 1995, Jeremy M. Devine, Vietnam at 24 frames a second, page 136:

     In case the public was not ready for this indictment of the United States presence, the narrative style at least bred familiarity and noncontroversy.

   • 2002, Ian Frazier, Family:

     We wanted a religion of peace and serenity and noncontroversy and refuge from the world.

2. (countable) Something that is not controversial, especially one that someone is trying to make seem like a controversy.
   • 1968, Joseph A. Scimecca, Roland Damiano, Crisis at St. John's:

     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."

   • 1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works, Proceedings of the Conference on Health Effects of Air Pollutants, page 682:

     I see this as a noncontroversy. I think that the issue here is the variation in inherited degree of susceptibility, and I think that would be accepted by both of you.

   • 2012, Matt Taibbi, “Introduction”, in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, page xxv:

     We can easily imagine how Hunter would have described people like Mitt Romney (I'm guessing he would have reached for "depraved scumsucking whore" pretty early in his coverage) and Rick Santorum ("screeching rectum-faced celibate"?) and all you have to do is look at his write-up of the Eagleton affair to see how this writer would have responded to whatever manufactured noncontroversy of the Bill Ayers/Reverend Wright genus ends up rocking the 2012 election season.

   • 2016, Steven Hatch, Snowball in a Blizzard:

     We have already seen one such noncontroversy in the form of the pseudodebate about Lyme disease.