nonconversation
English
editEtymology
editFrom non- + conversation.
Noun
editnonconversation (countable and uncountable, plural nonconversations)
- That which is not a conversation; especially a discussion that cannot be regarded as a conversation (because, for example, only one person is speaking).
- 2007 June 15, Ben Ratliff, “McCartney, Almost Within Touching Distance”, in New York Times[1]:
- He used no pyro or video backdrop, and the audience stood close enough to its hero that it could hold nonconversations with him.