nongreetings

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