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social cue

social cue noun: a verbal or non-verbal signal expressed through the face, body, voice, motion, and used to guide conversations as well as other social interactions by influencing impressions of and responses to others.

Noun

social cue (plural social cues)

  1. A verbal or non-verbal signal expressed through the face, body, voice, motion, and used to guide conversations as well as other social interactions by influencing impressions of and responses to others.

Forms of social cue

pluralsocial cues

Questions about social cue

What does social cue mean?
Social cue means a verbal or non-verbal signal expressed through the face, body, voice, motion, and used to guide conversations as well as other social interactions by influencing impressions of and responses to others.
What part of speech is social cue?
Social cue is a noun.
What is the plural of social cue?
The plural of social cue is social cues.

Words near social cue in the dictionary

  1. social controls
  2. social coupon
  3. social coupons
  4. social credit
  5. social creditism
  6. social cue
  7. social cues
  8. social Darwinism
  9. social death
  10. social deduction
  11. social democracies

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