Antiverbal
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Antiverbal is an adjective meaning (literature, semiotics) Opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words.
Meaning
(literature, semiotics) Opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words.
Example Sentences
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.
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 […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include averbal, non-verbal, verbless, alingual, antiliterate, verbal.
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