uncommunicativeness

• “Lots of folks grumble about the diffidence, self-absorption and general uncommunicativeness of Generation Y.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Why Gen-Y Johnny Can't Read Nonverbal Cues

• “At breakfast next morning Fanny plied him with questions and was furious at his cool uncommunicativeness.”

  Fanny Herself

• “But to the last she retained something of her son's unresponsiveness, and an uncommunicativeness which tagged his as hereditary.”

  Many Kingdoms

• “Nicolovius's haughty aloofness, his rigid uncommunicativeness, his grand ducal bearing and the fact that he paid eighteen dollars a week for a suite had of course made him a man of mark and mystery in the boarding-house, and in the romancings of Miss Miller he had figured as nearly everything from a fugitive crown prince to a retired counterfeiter.”

  Queed

• “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.”

  The Quicksand

• “A mystery enveloped his beauty, his uncommunicativeness.”

  The Grey Cloak

• “Dr. Lavendar did not notice his uncommunicativeness; he had his own preoccupations.”

  The Awakening of Helena Richie

• “And having thus revenged herself for her colleague's uncommunicativeness, she went her way.”

  The Privet Hedge

• “Mrs. Benjamin ignored Isabelle's uncommunicativeness.”

  The Cricket

• “He suddenly revealed an astonishing streak of uncommunicativeness, totally unnatural in him and tantalising in the extreme.”

  From the Housetops

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