GESTICULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gesticulation mean? 

• GESTICULATION (noun)
  The noun GESTICULATION has 1 sense:

1. a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion

  Familiarity information: GESTICULATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GESTICULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("gesticulation" is a kind of...):

gesture; motion (the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals)

Derivation:

gesticulate (show, express or direct through movement)

 Context examples 

He shrugged his shoulders in ungracious acquiescence, while our visitor in hurried words and with much excitable gesticulation poured forth his story.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Presently two countrymen passed by, but pausing near the cottage, they entered into conversation, using violent gesticulations; but I did not understand what they said, as they spoke the language of the country, which differed from that of my protectors.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)