Nongreeting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nongreeting is a noun meaning The absence of a greeting at a time when a one is possible or expected.
Meaning
The absence of a greeting at a time when a one is possible or expected.
Example Sentences
"I came here to tell you a story," Shoot said, as if hurt by the nongreeting, stepping into the firelight.
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.
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 stigmatized.
Word Forms
- nongreetings
- non-greeting
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nonpresence, nonexpectation, nonresponse, nonacknowledgment, nonacknowledgement, inexpectation.
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