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nongreeting

nongreeting noun: the absence of a greeting at a time when a one is possible or expected.

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
    • The reception the Monroe women prepared for the soldiers of Company A was grand compared to the nongreeting the rest of the men received when they reached Detroit late that night.2010, Martin N. Bertera, Kim Crawford, The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, →ISBN, page xcv

Forms of nongreeting

pluralnongreetings
alternative formnon-greeting

Questions about nongreeting

What does nongreeting mean?
Nongreeting means the absence of a greeting at a time when a one is possible or expected.
What part of speech is nongreeting?
Nongreeting is a noun.
What is the plural of nongreeting?
The plural of nongreeting is nongreetings.

Words near nongreeting in the dictionary

  1. nongreasy
  2. nongreat
  3. nongreedy
  4. nongreen
  5. nongreenhouse
  6. nongreeting
  7. nongreetings
  8. nongregarious
  9. nongregariousness
  10. nongremial
  11. nongrey

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