antiverbal

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English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ verbal.

Adjective

antiverbal (comparative more antiverbal, superlative most antiverbal)

  1. (literature, semiotics) Opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words.
    • 1987, Wayne (Chris) Anderson, Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction (page 5)
      Though in very different ways, Wolfe, Capote, Mailer, and Didion each define their subjects as somehow beyond words — antiverbal or nonverbal, threatening or sublime, overpowering and intense or private and intuitive
    • 1989, Ronald L. Dotterer, Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and Context, page 206:
      Othello, Horatio, and Brutus strike me as notable exemplars of laconicism, but in Hotspur's case Shakespeare creates an antiverbal bias that is not so much philosophical as it is bound up in gender stereotype.

Translations

Portuguese

Etymology

From anti- +‎ verbal.

Pronunciation

 
 

Adjective

antiverbal m or f (plural antiverbais)

  1. (literature, semiotics) antiverbal (opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words)