Nonspeak

Quick meaning: Nonspeak is a noun meaning Speech that is intended to satisfy a needed response, yet lacking in any real pertinent information; speech about nothing, empty words; useless talk or babble.

Meaning

Speech that is intended to satisfy a needed response, yet lacking in any real pertinent information; speech about nothing, empty words; useless talk or babble.

More Meanings

1. (rare) An aversion to speaking; speechlessness.

Example Sentences

Most of the action reports are carefully worded statements by ship's officers who have been trained in the art of nonspeak.

The only possible originality advertising could claim is in technique, and even then this is doubtful; certainly never in content, which consists entirely in pseudo-speech, Orwellian non-speak.

By nine, Hodson said, boys have learned to be incurious about other people; they aren't inclined to conversation; they aren't interested in discovering more about other people. They have already learned nonspeak and nonlisten.

The tendency for obscure communication or what human rights and refugee advocate Julian Burnside AO QC calls “nonspeak”, most commonly found in complex and jargon-ridden language used by governments and business, leads to the “wilful misuse” of language in public utterances.

Word Forms

• non-speak
• non speak

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tongueless, mute, walk-on, autospeak, rhetoric, wordmongery.

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