Meaning of nongreeting | Babel Free

Definitions

The absence of a greeting at a time when a one is possible or expected.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“"I came here to tell you a story," Shoot said, as if hurt by the nongreeting, stepping into the firelight.”

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