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.
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- noun Non-
verbal communication by means of gestures, and/or other bodymovement .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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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.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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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.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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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.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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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.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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The ability to read and interpret body language is known as kinesics.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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The ability to read and interpret body language is known as kinesics.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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The ability to read and interpret body language is known as kinesics.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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The ability to read and interpret body language is known as kinesics.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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