pasimology

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pasimology (uncountable)

  1. The use of gestures as a means of communication.
    • 1965, Mario Pei, The Story of Language, page 18:
      It is interesting that the American Indians should have contributed to the world's civilization their own particular form of pasimology, used for the avowed purpose of avoiding international language difficulties.
    • 1985, Joan Brest Friedberg, June B. Mullins, Adelaide Weir Sukiennik, Accept Me As I Am, →ISBN:
      Early in the book, Pizer discusses pasimology, the science of communication by gesture.
    • 1989, Franklin H. Silverman, Communication for the speechless:
      It is interesting to note in this regard that the International Boy Scout movement . . . resolutely adopted the Indian sign language and proceeded to develop a science of pasimology, or gestures, which serves the Jamborees in perfect fashion.

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