extraverbal
adjEtymology From extra- + verbal.
1
Outside of speech; by other means than speaking.
- She can do it only by varying the messages transmitted through the extraverbal channels; through changes in muscular tension if she is holding the child, changes in facial set, gesture, or intonation.1964, John Joseph Gumperz, Dell H. Hymes, The ethnography of communication, page 59:
- Derived terms
- extraverbally