Deportment vs Gesture - What's the difference?
deportment | gesture | Related terms |
bearing; manner of presenting oneself:
:Her deportment impressed her interviewers.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
*:...Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact...
conduct; public behavior:
:Their deportment changed visibly as the policeman approached.
apparent level of schooling or training:
:His academic deportment did not match his degree record.
self-discipline:
:The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.
A motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech.
* Milton
An act or a remark made as a formality or as a sign of attitude.
* '>citation
(obsolete) The manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
* Sir Thomas Browne
To make a gesture or gestures.
To express something by a gesture or gestures.
To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action.
* Hooker
Deportment is a related term of gesture.
As nouns the difference between deportment and gesture
is that deportment is bearing; manner of presenting oneself: while gesture is a motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech.As a verb gesture is
to make a gesture or gestures.deportment
English
Noun
(en noun)See also
*comportment, behavior, accordgesture
English
(wikipedia gesture)Noun
(en noun)- The middle-finger gesture is really a nonverbal swear.
- This Web browser can be controlled with mouse gestures .
- Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, / In every gesture dignity and love.
- We took flowers as a gesture of sympathy.
- Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations.
Verb
- My dad said to never gesture with my hands when I talk.
- Never gesture at someone with a middle finger.
- He gestured his disgust.
- It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth.