expressiveness
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4.1
- noun
- /ɪkˈsprɛsɪvnəs/
:
expresividad
- Children often show their expressiveness through gestures and drawings when words fail them.
- emotional expressiveness
- verbal expressiveness
- semantic expressiveness
And then these become the tools that you use, the colours that you use to really portray your expressiveness.
- And then these become the tools that you use, the colours that you use to really portray your expressiveness.
- His is not the expressiveness that we know how to show.
Examples
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High-quality literature can be defined as literature that represents the highest levels of expressiveness and craftsmanship.
Academic text (1997) -
Lovett's expressiveness comes less through his own muted tones than through his suggestive patterns of association.
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For male head coaches, a strong relationship between expressiveness and environmental control was present.
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No notes are wrong, and expressiveness is at the heart of the improvisation activity.
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I fell in love with the language and came to regard it as an incomparable vehicle for expressiveness.
Academic text (1998) -
For example, musical performances are commonly judged by traits such as tone quality, pitch, and expressiveness.
Academic text (2011) -
For accomplished performances, expressiveness seems to be the predominant consideration.
Academic text (2015) -
Graham endowed the human form in motion with an astonishing new expressiveness.
Academic text (2005) -
Immediacy, social relaxation, empathy, and expressiveness were the dimensions in which head coaches viewed themselves as most competent.
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The Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale includes 10 components: altercentrism, assertiveness, empathy, environmental control, expressiveness, immediacy, interaction management.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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3.4
The way someone shows thoughts and feelings in speech and writing
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4.6
To express thoughts or feelings clearly in words
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6.4
A deep, strong feeling in music or art that moves people
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6.9
How clearly and strongly someone shows thoughts or feelings
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6.7
The ability to speak or write clearly and well
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7.5
A warm, open way of showing strong feelings
The ability to speak ideas clearly when talking to others
A tendency to show feelings openly so others can see them
Antonyms
How Expressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
expressiveness = expressive (transparent) = express + ive + ness
The suffix '-ness' transparently turns the adjective 'expressive' into a noun indicating a quality or state.
Etymology
Expressiveness comes from express, which has the parts ex- meaning 'out' and press meaning 'to push', so it originally meant 'to push out' ideas or feelings. That's why expressiveness means the quality of showing feelings or ideas clearly.