The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonverbal \nonverbal\, non-verbal \non-verbal\adj. Involving little or no use of language; as, gestures are a form of nonverbal communication.
Syn: non-verbal.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of communication English) in a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language. 2 (context grammar somewhat rare English) of or relating to a word that belongs to any part of speech other than that of verbs alt. 1 (context of communication English) in a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language. 2 (context grammar somewhat rare English) of or relating to a word that belongs to any part of speech other than that of verbs n. A sound, gesture, etc. that is not a word.
Usage examples of "non-verbal".
A catalogue, a bibliography, a definitive edition of a third-rate versifier's ipsissima verba, a stupendous index to end all indexes -- any genuinely Alexandrian project is sure of approval and financial support: But when it comes to finding out how you and I, our children and grand-children, may become more perceptive, more intensely aware of inward and outward reality, more open to the Spirit, less apt, by psychological malpractices, to make ourselves physically ill, and more capable of controlling our own autonomic nervous system -- when it comes to any form of non-verbal education more .