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UNCOMMUNICATIVENESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does uncommunicativeness mean?

• UNCOMMUNICATIVENESS (noun)
The noun UNCOMMUNICATIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being uncommunicative

Familiarity information: UNCOMMUNICATIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UNCOMMUNICATIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The trait of being uncommunicative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("uncommunicativeness" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uncommunicativeness"):

muteness; silence (a refusal to speak when expected)

secrecy; secretiveness; silence (the trait of keeping things secret)

reserve; reticence; taciturnity (the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary)

Antonym:

communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)

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