nongreeting

plural nongreetings · alternative non-greeting

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

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

   2013, Scott Elliott, Temple Grove, →ISBN, page 84

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   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.

   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