nonverbalness

English

Etymology

From nonverbal +‎ -ness.

Noun

nonverbalness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being nonverbal.
   • 1987 March, David F. Armstrong, “Word, Sign And Object”, in Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, volume 77, number 1, →JSTOR, page 28:

     Fundamental iconism in signs has, historically, been taken as indicative of primitiveness or “nonverbalness,” and it was the seminal discovery of Stokoe²² that this iconism in American Sign Language masked a more basic structure that, indeed, had a phonological type of organization.