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Incommunicativeness

Incommunicative \In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive\,

  1. Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive.

    The Chinese . . . an incommunicative nation.
    --C. Buchanan. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ly, adv. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ness, n.
    --Lam

  2. His usual incommunicativeness.
    --G. Eliot.

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incommunicativeness

n. The state or condition of being incommunicative.