misencounter

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ encounter

Noun

misencounter (plural misencounters)

  1. A bad or wrong encounter.
    • 1998, The Texas Review (volume 19, page 36)
      We had tried to meet on earlier occasions, which led to a couple of hilarious misencounters. The first time we were to meet at the Biltmore Men's Bar, (even the name is impossible today!) and I was waiting in the downstairs bar, and he was waiting in the upstairs bar, each thinking the other had stood him up!
    • 2006, Julio Ortega, Transatlantic Translations: Dialogues in Latin American Literature
      As is logical, the meeting illustrates mutual differences until it becomes an emblem of a misencounter.

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