Consequence and Happening

Consequence

Consequence noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.

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Happening and consequence are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Happening" instead a noun "Consequence".

Happening noun - An exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand.

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Consequence and happening are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Consequence" instead a noun "Happening".

Nearby Words: happen, happened

specific	specific consequence	specific happening
obvious	obvious consequence	obvious happening
real	real consequence	real happening
little	little consequence	little happening
Other adjectives: bad, tragic, main, important, supernatural, minor, inevitable, worse.

An Aesop: The Plot Device du jour; instead of happening as a consequence of the plot, the plot is for Twilight to find the consequence itself.

Source: Recap / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S2 E3 "Lesson Zero"
However, his good fortune meant that in order to balance the cosmic scales almost anyone around him was just as likely to suffer from something horrible happening to them as a direct consequence.

Source: Disaster Dominoes
Rather than one story, it actually tells two, happening at the same time, both being natural consequence of events of Hickman's run on The Avengers and New Avengers, as well as set up to keep fans of The Avengers movie hyped for future film appearances of a certain One-Scene Wonder.

Source: Comicbook / Infinity

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