Nonverbal Meaning
/nɑˈnvɜrbəl/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjAlternative form of non-verbal.
Sentence Examples
Up to 60% of Imogen of the Internet's nonverbal social cues are snarky hashtags.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She used ____ communication like gestures and facial expressions to convey her feelings.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Body language and facial expressions are important forms of ____ communication.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English non- English verbal English nonverbal From non- + verbal.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"In the Moroccan dialect of Meknès, verbal negation is by means of the circumfix ma...-š, as in (15), while nonverbal negation is primarily by means of invariable ma-ši before the nonverbal predicate, as in (16)."
— 1991, Bernard Comrie, “On the Importance of Arabic to General Linguistic Theory”, in Bernard Comrie, Mushira Eid, editors, Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics III: Papers from the Third Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 15:
"Negative prefix in Russian is a distinctive feature of nonverbal parts of speech, namely, nouns (even those that do not denote situations, e.g. 3a), adjectives (3b), and adverbs (3c): […]"
— 2009, Anna Pazelskaya, “Three Kinds of Event Nominal Negation in Russian”, in Peter Bosch, David Gabelaia, Jérôme Lang, editors, Logic, Language, and Computation: 7th International Tbilisi Symposium, Springer, →ISBN, page 25:
"So obviously when we think about nonverbal behavior, or body language -- but we call it nonverbals as social scientists -- it's language, so we think about communication. When we think about communication, we think about interactions."
— 2012 June 26, Amy Cuddy, “Your body language may shape who you are”, in TED:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She used ____ communication like gestures and facial expressions to convey her feelings.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Body language and facial expressions are important forms of ____ communication.