Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
study of body language, 1952, from Greek kinesis "movement, motion" (see cite) + -ics. Related: kinesic.
Wiktionary
n. Non-verbal communication by means of gestures, and/or other body movement.
Wikipedia
Kinesics is the interpretation of body motion communication such as facial expressions and gestures, nonverbal behavior related to movement of any part of the body or the body as a whole. The equivalent popular culture term is body language, a term Ray Birdwhistell, considered the founder of this area of study, neither used nor liked (on the grounds that what can be conveyed with the body does not meet the linguist's definition of language). Even so, many people use the term.
Usage examples of "kinesics".
Tocohl judged him a northerner still unused to southern kinesics, despite long residence.
Hellspark language lessons always start with the proxemics and kinesics of a new language.
Alfvaen her greatest asset in learning the proxemics and kinesics of Jenji.
It was originally composed to incorporate every known possibility of human language, all the sounds of all the various tongues, not to mention such refinements as inflection, tonal changes, proxemics and kinesics, as well.
From then on, I could get her to notice anyone else simply by switching from the proxemics and kinesics of one language to another in mid-sentence.
Yn must have different proxemics and kinesics for male and female, just as they have different spoken dialects for male and female.
Vikry took on the proxemics and kinesics of an Yn male with an accuracy that would have astonished even a native dancer of the language.
New York for the past three days presenting her kinesics seminar to local law enforcement agencies.
The detective had taken her course in kinesics the day before at One Police Plaza and had just called, asking if she could come by now to give them a hand on a multiple homicide.
One of the most important rules in kinesics is that a single gesture or behavior means very little.
But she was a cop and a mother and a kinesics expert, and all three of those roles required her to be an expert at the largely forgotten art of listening.
It included applied kinesics developed into a social power to which even his kind were not immune.
I have one evening to spend talking the kinesics of galactic cores with Mr.
She had, it seemed, traveled to Vulcan and lived there for several years while studying language, semiotics, and kinesics at the Science Academy.
That fascinated Kasak, because he had seen Romulans move, both in the cube and in the Year Games, and while he might have expected it of the Vulcan, to find a human with the same kinesics as a Romulan was to find a human who deserved much closer examination.