averbal

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adjective

Not verbal; without words and speech.

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Meanings

adjectiveaverbal (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot verbal; without words and speech.

    It is not yet clear how these birds were able to “count” and to form averbal concepts of numbers without the help of characterizing words.

    1978, Marvin D. Loflin, James Silverberg, Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology, page 266

Origin

From a- + verbal.

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Cite this entry
APA

averbal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/averbal

MLA

“averbal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/averbal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “averbal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/averbal.

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