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body language Etymology: AS, bodig + L, lingua, tongue a set of nonverbal signals, including body movements, postures, gestures, spatial positions, facial expressions, and body adornment, that give expression to various physical, mental, and emotional states. See also kinesics. body language the expression of feelings by means of postures or gestures. Flamboyant body language is characteristic of primates but most animal species use gestures to demonstrate their attitudes to other animals and to the environment generally. body language Psychology An informal often culture-independent form of communication in which emotions, feelings, motives, and thoughts are expressed by changes in facial expressions, gestures, posture, body positions, and other nonverbal
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PAINAD's most helpful cues were: body language (90%), facial expression (90%), consolability (85%), negative vocalisation (81%) and breathing (78%). With body language that would do a drag queen justice, the women balance their need for each other with their resentment of every real and imagined slight. Moran's body language defined frustration, as his team failed to avenge its loss in last year's City Section Invitational title game. |
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