gesturelike
adjEtymology From gesture + -like.
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Resembling or characteristic of a gesture.
- Appealing to specific instances of metaphor to illustrate meaning in a gesturelike manner only results in vacuous circularity […]1988, Phillip Stambovsky, The depictive image: metaphor and literary experience:
- […] DCDP children are exposed to more points and gesturelike signs in their linguistic environment […]2005, Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education: