non·end·ing | \ ˌnän-ˈen-diŋ 
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: an incomplete or inadequate ending … made her prime-time debut on Girlfriends, which ran for nearly nine seasons before an unceremonious nonending in 2008.— Regina R. Robertson Once, people probably broke up maturely, in conversations inarguably final in tone. Now we have ragged nonendings.— Phoebe Luckhurst
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The first known use of nonending was in 1834
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