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nonverbal communication

process of communication through sending and receiving wordless (mostly visual) cues between people
Class type of: communication Q207125

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
form of communication
Subclass of
communication[2]
Opposite of
verbal communication[3]
P14541
c1KM2, ujbNr[5][6]
Topic has template
Template:Nonverbal communication[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en non-verbal communication en nonverbal communication ar التواصل غير الملفوظ ar تواصل غير لساني ar تواصل لالفظي ar تواصل لا كلامي ar تواصل غير لفظي ar تواصل غير كلامي ar تواصل إبلاغي غير لساني ar التواصل اللالفظي cs neverbální komunikace cs nonverbání komunikace cs Nonverbální komunikace da nonverbal kommunikation de außersprachliche Kommunikation de Ausdruck de analoge Kommunikation de Nonverbalität de nonverbale Kommunikationsmittel de nonverbale Kommunikation
🔖 Identifiers · 40
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85092368
GND ID
4075376-1
OpenAlex ID
C145633318
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Understanding in Xian 0546.jpg ↗
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294928952
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/4103
Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID
2902
BBC Things ID
f63b9f16-3c72-43ad-824b-b7256ac411c9
BNCF Thesaurus ID
17217
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11936480h
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.222
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
213783, 35029
Show all 40 identifiers +28
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/nonverbal-communication
European Education Thesaurus ID
642
FAST ID
1039009
Freebase ID
/m/02qrlk
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
nonverbal_kommunikasjon
Harper's tag
nonverbal-communication
IdRef ID
027290603, 040748502
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
tone-of-voice
KBpedia ID
NonVerbalCommunicating
MeSH descriptor ID
D009633
MeSH tree code
F01.145.209.530, L01.143.649
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
145633318
Museum-digital tag ID
19488
NALT ID
18349
NE.se ID
icke-verbal-kommunikation
NL CR AUT ID
ph115459, ph1267014
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007533844705171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX4576375
PSH ID
6650
Quora topic ID
Nonverbal-Communication-2
SVKKL authority ID
h0004065-nonverbalni-komunikace
TDKIV Wikibase ID
August 12
TDKIV term ID
000002784
Topic's main category
Category:Nonverbal communication
UMLS CUI
C0028325
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept5785
YSO ID
1855
Yale LUX ID
concept/b0a868a9-d683-4d8b-ba42-bc60c6420e43

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🔗 Connections
Subtypes 9
gesture, facial expression, proxemics, paralanguage, kinesics, chronemics, haptic communication, gesticulation +1 more
← Field of work 4
Paul Ekman, Edward T. Hall, Marie Neurath, Adriana Peña Pérez Negrón
Belongs to 1
cognitive science
Opposite of 1
verbal communication
Subclass of 1
communication
TDKIV Wikibase ID 1
August 12
Topic has template 1
Template:Nonverbal communication
Topic's main category 1
Category:Nonverbal communication
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Nonverbal communication
← FactGrid item ID 1
Kingussie
← Opposite of 1
verbal communication
← Template has topic 1
Template:Nonverbal communication
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Summary

nonverbal communication is a form of communication[1].

Related Entities

Adriana Peña Pérez Negrón

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → nonverbal-communication
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: nonverbal-communication, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289952863|nonverbal communication (#289952863)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/cata"
  2. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → c1KM2, ujbNr
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0004065-nonverbalni-komunikace
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0004065-nonverbalni-komunikace, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    NL CR AUT ID → ph115459, ph1267014
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Nonverbal communication
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|15 */ YSO ID: 1855, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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