nongreeting

English

Alternative forms

• non-greeting

Noun

nongreeting (plural nongreetings)

1. The absence of a greeting at a time when a one is possible or expected.
   • 1986, George L. Huttar, Kenneth Gregerson, Pragmatics in Non-western Perspective, page 165:

     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.

   • 2010, Martin N. Bertera, Kim Crawford, The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, →ISBN, page xcv:

     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.

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

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