Nongreeting

noun

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

    "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."

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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."

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