incommunicative
adjective
not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
incommunicativeness
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a word derived from
incommunicative.
Example Sentences
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The incommunicativeness of the soldier is also due to the fact that he cannot recall his sensations.
From The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' by Michael MacDonagh
Back and forth under the big tulip-tree she walked in the crisp October air, commanding her face to a pale incommunicativeness, but clinching and unclinching her hands.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
I continue to hear great complaints of Peel—of his coldness, incommunicativeness, and deficiency in all the qualities requisite for a leader, particularly at such a time.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Henry Reeve
From these fortuitous encounters Helen gathered the impression by degrees that though Mr. Kane might not find her satisfactory, he found her, in her incommunicativeness, quite as interesting as Thomas the footman.
From Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
If not exactly friendly, they lacked that sour incommunicativeness of the higher plateau.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck
