Mannerism vs Gesture - What's the difference?
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A group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual.
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Exaggerated or effected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
(arts, literature) In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, described as a negation of the classicist equilibrium, pre-Baroque, and deforming expressiveness.
(arts, literature) In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language.
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.
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(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
As nouns the difference between mannerism and gesture
is that mannerism is a group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual 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.mannerism
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)References
* APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2007Etymology 2
From (etyl) , from (maniera), coined by at the end of the XVIII century.Alternative forms
* MannerismNoun
(en noun)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.
