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nonverbalness en · NOUN

Etymology

From nonverbal + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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: