Making hand and body movements to communicate, express, or emphasize something.
Present participle of gesture, from Latin gestus. As a gerund or participle, it names the ongoing action of making gestures.
When people lie, they often gesture less—it's harder to maintain false stories while managing multiple communication channels simultaneously. Police interrogators are trained to watch for abnormally stiff subjects, because natural humans gesture constantly while speaking honestly.
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