The conclusion everyone in the room has privately reached but nobody is saying out loud — a shared understanding that exists entirely in the space between words. An unspoken inference is what happens when a group collectively reads the same subtext and all decide, together, to let it remain subtext. It's the thing everyone already knows but hasn't been confirmed, the elephant in the conversation, the meaning that communicates itself through what is conspicuously not said. Social glue and social powder keg in equal measure.
There was an unspoken inference at the dinner table that this relationship was already over.
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