uncommunicativeness
- a word derived from uncommunicative.
Example Sentences
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Ever since, he has cultivated a habit of almost total uncommunicativeness.
From Time Magazine Archive
With continued uncommunicativeness, except as to the factual results, the Republican National Committee's subcommittee to cooperate with the Candidates was taken into conference, Hooverized, given some luncheon, dismissed.
From Time Magazine Archive
That Edward was reserved—that beneath his remarkable frankness there lay an uncommunicativeness of disposition—no one could before his marriage have made her believe: yet it certainly was so.
From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet
Alan's uncommunicativeness extended below the level of speech, and his mother, reduced to the helplessness of dead-reckoning, had not even the solace of adapting her sympathy to his needs.
From The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Wharton, Edith
But to the last she retained something of her son's unresponsiveness, and an uncommunicativeness which tagged his as hereditary.
From Many Kingdoms by Jordan, Elizabeth Garver
