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chironomia

chironomia noun: chironomy.

Noun

chironomia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Chironomy.
    • Studies of chironomia had, from Elizabethan times, replicated the same descriptions of arm and hand gestures with the same prescription for their rhetorical.2003, Frederick Burwick, in Robyn Asleson, Notorious Muse, Yale University Press 2003, p. 130

Origin of chironomia

From Latin chīronomia, from Ancient Greek χειρονομία (kheironomía, “gesticulation”).

Questions about chironomia

What does chironomia mean?
Chironomia means chironomy.
What part of speech is chironomia?
Chironomia is a noun.

Words near chironomia in the dictionary

  1. chironemids
  2. chironian
  3. Chironic
  4. chironomer
  5. chironomers
  6. chironomia
  7. chironomic
  8. chironomical
  9. chironomid
  10. chironomids
  11. chironomies

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