nonverbal

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Funny, that's precisely why I'm trying to make my punctuation correct -- to compensate for the lack of nonverbal cues.

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Quick take

being other than verbal communication; "the study of gestural communication"; "art like gesture is a form of nonverbal expression"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of nonverbal gathered in one view.

adjective

being other than verbal communication; "the study of gestural communication"; "art like gesture is a form of nonverbal expression"

adjective

lacking verbal skill; "rural students often come from nonverbal backgrounds"

adjective

involving little use of language; "a nonverbal intelligence test"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nonverbal.

adjective

being other than verbal communication; "the study of gestural communication"; "art like gesture is a form of nonverbal expression"

adjective

lacking verbal skill; "rural students often come from nonverbal backgrounds"

adjective

involving little use of language; "a nonverbal intelligence test"

Example sentences

Funny, that's precisely why I'm trying to make my punctuation correct -- to compensate for the lack of nonverbal cues.

One track is to view social nonverbal communication as ethically neutral, but eh, that... might have other problems, too.

The message that sons are wired to be nonverbal and emotionally distant thus becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

So if we can overload the semantics of a period and of capital letters to help compensate for the lack of nonverbal communication, all the better.

There's a whole other channel of nonverbal, subconscious communication.

Communication is about making yourself understood, and punctuation is a means to that end. When people expect a period to mean one thing because most people use a period in that fashion then what do you accomplish by defecting from that common usage?In meatspace you can rely on nonverbal cues, online you cannot.