Gesture vs Endearment - What's the difference?
gesture | endearment |
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
The act or process of endearing, of causing (something or someone) to be loved or to be the object of affection.
* 1913 , , The Vision Splendid , ch. 20:
The state or characteristic of being endeared.
* 1855 , , North and South , ch. 38:
An expression of affection.
* 1902 , , The Conqueror , ch. 18:
As nouns the difference between gesture and endearment
is that gesture is a motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech while endearment is the act or process of endearing, of causing (something or someone) to be loved or to be the object of affection.As a verb gesture
is to make a gesture or gestures.gesture
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.
Synonyms
* gesticulateHyponyms
* beckonSee also
*External links
* * ----endearment
English
Alternative forms
* indearmentNoun
(en noun)- Every step of that walk led Jeff deeper into an excursion of endearment . It was amazingly true that he trod beside her an acknowledged friend, a secret lover.
- He could not forget the fond and earnest look that had passed between her and some other man—the attitude of familiar confidence, if not of positive endearment .
- When they were alone he called him "my boy," an endearment he never gave another.