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nonverbalness

nonverbalness noun: the quality of being nonverbal.

Noun

nonverbalness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being nonverbal.
    • Fundamental iconism in signs has, historically, been taken as indicative of primitiveness or “nonverbalness,” and it was the seminal discovery of Stokoe²² that this iconism in American Sign Language masked a more basic structure that, indeed, had a phonological type of organization.1987 March, David F. Armstrong, “Word, Sign And Object”, in Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, volume 77, number 1, →JSTOR, page 28

Origin of nonverbalness

From nonverbal + -ness.

Questions about nonverbalness

What does nonverbalness mean?
Nonverbalness means the quality of being nonverbal.
What part of speech is nonverbalness?
Nonverbalness is a noun.

Words near nonverbalness in the dictionary

  1. nonverbal learning disorder
  2. nonverbal learning disorders
  3. nonverbalizable
  4. nonverbalized
  5. nonverbally
  6. nonverbalness
  7. nonverbals
  8. nonverbatim
  9. nonverbose
  10. nonverbs
  11. nonverdict

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