happening
Something going on
Happening describes something that is occurring right now or is current and exciting: There's a lot happening downtown tonight.
As a noun, a happening is an event or occurrence, especially one that's notable: The festival was quite a happening.
In the 1960s, happenings were avant-garde performance art events with audience participation.
The adjective means fashionable or trendy: a happening nightclub, though this use now sounds dated.
Notable event or moment
- occurrenceSomething that takes place
- incidentA distinct event
- affairRomantic entanglement outside commitment
- episodeSerialized content unit
function · gathering · celebration · festival · concert · gala · ceremony · parade
A notable occurrence
- incidentA distinct event
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- phenomenonExtraordinary observable occurrence
- circumstanceCondition affecting an event
situation · episode · moment · instance · case · matter · thing · experience
occasion
Notable event or moment
- occurrenceSomething that takes place
- incidentA distinct event
- affairRomantic entanglement outside commitment
episode · function · gathering · celebration · festival · concert · gala · ceremony · parade · carnival
event
A notable occurrence
- incidentA distinct event
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- phenomenonExtraordinary observable occurrence
circumstance · situation · episode · moment · instance · case · matter · thing · experience · outcome
hip
Fashionable or pelvic joint
hot · now · current · contemporary · modern · fashionable · with-it · groovy · swinging · au courant
bustling
Full of energetic activity
buzzing · hopping · jumping · swinging · alive · animated · energetic · exciting · thrilling · pulsating
- eventsevent, events, party, parties, wedding
- gerundswalking, running, talking, eating, sleeping
- happeningsevent, occurrence, events, incident, incidents
- avant-gardeDada, Dadaism, Futurism, Constructivism, Cabaret Voltaire
- art formspainting, drawing, sculpture, photography, music
- ongoing actionscontinuing, lasting, persisting, remaining, staying
happeningunfashionable
Not currently stylish
unhip · uncool · out · old-fashioned · passé
happeningnon-event
Disappointing lack of significance
nothing · stillness · inactivity · stasis · uneventfulness
- what's happeningCasual status inquiry
- not happeningWill never occur
- happening acrossEncountering by accident
- happening uponFinding unexpectedly
- happening alongAppearing somewhere coincidentally