Nonverbalness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being nonverbal. uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From nonverbal + -ness.
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