facial expression

Questions about facial expression

What does facial expression mean?

facial expression means "a gesture executed with the facial muscles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for facial expression?

Close synonyms include facial gesture, expression, look, aspect, face. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is facial expression a common word?

facial expression 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.