anticommunication

English edit

Etymology edit

anti- +‎ communication

Noun edit

anticommunication (countable and uncountable, plural anticommunications)

  1. A failure to communicate effectively or at all.
    • 1992, Richard McGee Morse, Jorge Enrique Hardoy, Rethinking the Latin American City, page 95:
      [] this block brings about a breakdown linked to anticommunication — horns are sounded, insults hurled at fellow drivers; []
    • 2004, Michael Eigen, The Sensitive Self:
      Thanks to internet sites where mixtures of communication and anticommunication rage.