ALL meanings of non-expressive
ex·pres·sive
N n - adjective non-expressive full of expression; meaningful: an expressive shrug. 1
- adjective non-expressive serving to express; indicative of power to express: a look expressive of gratitude. 1
- adjective non-expressive of, relating to, or concerned with expression: Dance is a highly expressive art. 1
- adjective non-expressive Sociology. (of a crowd or group) engaging in nonpurposeful activity of an expressive and often rhythmic nature, as weeping, dancing, or shouting. Compare active (def 15), orgiastic (def 2). 1
- adjective non-expressive Linguistics. of or relating to forms in which sounds denote a semantic field directly and nonarbitrarily, through sound symbolism based, to some degree, on synesthesia, as observable in onomatopoeia, rhyming and gradational compounds, and emotionally charged words such as hypocoristics and pejoratives. 1