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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(literature, semiotics) Opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words..
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 […]
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.
Use antiverbal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Antiverbal means (literature, semiotics) Opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words..
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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 […]
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