non-verbal
Speech parts
1. non-verbal - Noun
2. non-verbal - Adjective
Meaning
(of communication) In a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language.
(grammar, somewhat rare) Of or relating to a word that belongs to any part of speech other than that of verbs
(pathology) Unable to speak.
non-verbal (plural non-verbals)
A sound, gesture, etc. that is not a word.
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Examples
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.
We tend to discount a lot of meaning that goes on in life that's non-verbal. Color can convey a total range of mood and expression, of one's experience in life, without having to give it descriptive or literary qualities.