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Gesture vs Foreboding - What's the difference?

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Gesture is a related term of foreboding.


As nouns the difference between gesture and foreboding

is that gesture is a motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech while foreboding is a sense of evil to come.

As verbs the difference between gesture and foreboding

is that gesture is to make a gesture or gestures while foreboding is .

As an adjective foreboding is

of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

gesture

English

(wikipedia gesture)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech.
    • The middle-finger gesture is really a nonverbal swear.
    This Web browser can be controlled with mouse gestures .
  • * Milton
    • Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, / In every gesture dignity and love.
  • An act or a remark made as a formality or as a sign of attitude.
    • We took flowers as a gesture of sympathy.
  • * '>citation
  • (obsolete) The manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations.

    Related terms

    * countergesture * gesticulate * gesticulation * gesticulative * gestural * gestureless * gesturelike

    Verb

  • To make a gesture or gestures.
    • My dad said to never gesture with my hands when I talk.
    Never gesture at someone with a middle finger.
  • To express something by a gesture or gestures.
    • He gestured his disgust.
  • To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action.
  • * Hooker
    • It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth.

    Synonyms

    * gesticulate

    Hyponyms

    * beckon

    See also

    *

    External links

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    foreboding

    English

    Alternative forms

    * forboding (much less commonly used)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sense of evil to come.
  • * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
    • A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
  • An evil omen.

    • Synonyms

    * augury

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

    • Verb

    (head)