gestural
adjEtymology From gesture + -al.
1
Of, pertaining to, or using gestures.
- One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.2019 April 12, Annalisa Quinn, “The Small Rebellions of Sally Rooney’s Normal People”, in The Atlantic:
- Derived terms
- gesturalist, gesturality, gesturally, gesturalness, intergestural, intragestural, nongestural, visuogestural
- Related terms
- gesticulate, gesticulation, gesticulative, gesture