body language

1. 1.

   communication via the movements or attitudes of the body

   Broadervisual communication

Questions about body language

What does body language mean?

body language means "communication via the movements or attitudes of the body".

Is body language a common word?

body language is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.