facial expression

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Noun

facial expression (plural facial expressions)

  1. A particular configuration of the facial muscles that conveys certain emotions or intentions.
    • 1883, David Christie Murray, Hearts, Volume 3, page 2:
      But the yokel, being a yokel, was not good at the reading of facial expression, and only knew that a remarkably fine woman had gone by smiling.
    • 2003, Paul Collins, Sixpence House, page 140:
      The sullen clerk there did not return my greetings or my farewell, did not say a word, and did not show a single facial expression except irritation that I had interrupted his customerless routine.
    • 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)
      Facial expressions convey moods: Ritualized yawning—which starts with an oval mouth that breaks into a gaping one as the animal flings its head back—suggests tension.

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