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Conversation vs Nonversation - What's the difference?

conversation | nonversation |

As nouns the difference between conversation and nonversation

is that conversation is expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking while nonversation is a meaningless conversation.

As a verb conversation

is to engage in conversation (with).

conversation

English

(wikipedia conversation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
  • * 1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations
    • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation , grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
  • (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
  • (obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XI:
    • Yt chaunsed thatt a whole yere they had their conversacion with the congregacion there, and taught moche people insomoche thatt the disciples off Antioche we the fyrst that wer called Christen.
  • (archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:
    • There are many that take no heed what happeneth to others by bad conversation , and therefore overthrow themselves in the same manner through their own fault, not foreseeing dangers manifest.
  • (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
  • * 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :
    • (Ariadne)quitted her Lover (Theseus), for the tumultuous Conversation of (Bacchus).
  • * 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 333:
    • The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof.
  • (computing) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.

    • Synonyms

    * (expression and exchange of ideas through talking) banter, chat, chinwag, dialogue, discussion, interlocution, powwow, table talk

    Derived terms

    * conversational * conversation piece

    Related terms

    * converse * conversant

    Usage notes

    * To make conversation means to start a conversation with someone with no other aim than to talk and break the silence. * To have' a conversation, and to ' hold a conversation, both mean to converse. * See

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nonstandard, ambitransitive) To engage in conversation (with).
  • * 1983 , James Frederick Mason, Hélène Joséphine Harvitt, The French review
    • Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values...
  • * 1989 , Robert L Gale, A Henry James encyclopedia
    • ...he has breakfasted me, dined me, conversationed me, absolutely caressed me. He has been really most kind and paternal...
  • * 2002 , Georgie Nickell, I Only Smoke on Thursdays
    • After all this conversationing , Scottie, my usual dance partner, was getting antsy and wanted to dance.

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    nonversation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A meaningless conversation.
    • I had the most painful nonversation with my girlfriend's ignorant bigoted father.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1997 , author=Andrew Field , title=Nabokov, His Life In Part , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=22 , passage=There is always a bit of jovial nonversation at the newsstand.}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , author=Brian Dobbins , title=Jasmine's Husband, Sam , chapter=2 , url= , isbn= , page=14 , passage=Oh, God, thought Hadley. This "nonversation" can't go on much longer.}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=2008 , author=Maxim Jakubowski , title=Paris Noir: Capital Crime Fiction , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=266 , passage=As Bruce was somewhat taken aback by this turn in the nonversation , as a witty friend used to term the appropriately uneven match of social skills, he simply asked why.}}