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Unspoken vs Nonspoken - What's the difference?

unspoken | nonspoken |

As adjectives the difference between unspoken and nonspoken

is that unspoken is not spoken; not said while nonspoken is not spoken.

As a verb unspoken

is past participle of lang=en.

unspoken

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not spoken; not said.
  • Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood.
    • The unspoken rule is to start a new pot of coffee when it is empty.

    Synonyms

    * (not spoken) unsaid * (not formally stated) unacknowledged

    Verb

    (head)
    • English adjectives ending in -en

    nonspoken

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not spoken.
  • * 2005 , Susan Goldin-Meadow, Hearing gesture: how our hands help us think (page 109)
    • Flevares and Perry (2001) found that math teachers used from five to seven nonspoken representations of mathematical ideas per minute (almost one every 10 seconds) in their classrooms, and gesture was by far the most frequent