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cheironomia

cheironomia is the alternative form of chironomy.

Meaning of chironomy

Noun

chironomy (usually uncountable, plural chironomies)

  1. (rhetoric, usually) The art of using effective hand gestures, especially (historical) in Greco-Roman contexts.
  2. (usually) The skill of conducting music with hand gestures.

Questions about cheironomia

What is cheironomia the alternative form of?
Cheironomia is the alternative form of chironomy.

Words near cheironomia in the dictionary

  1. cheiromancers
  2. cheiromancy
  3. cheiromantist
  4. cheiromantists
  5. cheiromegaly
  6. cheironomia
  7. cheironomic
  8. cheironym
  9. cheironyms
  10. cheiropodist
  11. cheiropodists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheironomia (page history and authors); chironomy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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