kinesics
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- noun The study of nonlinguistic bodily movements, such as gestures and facial expressions, as a systematic mode of communication.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- noun Non-verbal communication by means of gestures, and/or other body movement.
Examples
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The term kinesics caught on among the linguists of the time, but in the 1960s, the kineme went the way of the phoneme.
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One of Dances favorite quotes came from a man who predated the coining of the term kinesics by a hundred years: Charles Darwin, who said, Repressed emotion almost always comes to the surface in some form of body motion.
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The ability to read and interpret body language is known as kinesics.
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The study of body language is called kinesics (kin EE sicks).
Note
The word 'kinesics' comes from a Greek root meaning 'motion, movement'.
