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non-greeting

non-greeting is the alternative form of nongreeting.

Meaning of nongreeting

Noun

nongreeting (plural nongreetings)

  1. The absence of a greeting at a time when a one is possible or expected.
    • It is in middle distance situations where there are several independent scenes and spaces within reasonable range, around twenty-five meters, that further observation is needed in order to confirm or disprove my intuition that there is no resultant rule: neither greeting nor nongreeting would be...1986, George L. Huttar, Kenneth Gregerson, Pragmatics in Non-western Perspective, page 165

Forms of non-greeting

pluralnon-greetings

Questions about non-greeting

What is non-greeting the alternative form of?
Non-greeting is the alternative form of nongreeting.

Words near non-greeting in the dictionary

  1. non-governmental organisations
  2. non-governmental organization
  3. non-governmental organizations
  4. non-gradable
  5. non-gradables
  6. non-greeting
  7. non-greetings
  8. non-Gricean
  9. non-haemodynamically
  10. non-harmonic tone
  11. non-harmonic tones

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