Definitions

gesticulation

[je-stik-yuh-ley-shuhn] / dʒɛˌstɪk jəˈleɪ ʃən /

NOUN

gesture

Synonyms

STRONG

action bow curtsy expression genuflection indication intimation mime motion nod pantomime reminder salute shrug sign signal token wave wink

WEAK

body language high sign kinesics sign language

Antonyms

STRONG

repose rest

Example Sentences

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Gesticulation, observation of, 49; com- pared with writing, 49.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Gesticulation was for them a science learnedly termed chironomy.

From The Wonders of Pompeii by Monnier, Marc

They read them instead of pronouncing them by Heart, which prevents them from falling into that extravagant Gesticulation, and those mad Rants and Enthusiasm, which commonly irritate more than edify.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

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