paralinguistic

[ par-uh-ling-gwis-tik ]

adjective

of or relating to paralanguage or paralinguistics.

Origin of paralinguistic

¹

First recorded in 1955–60; para-¹ + linguistic

Words Nearby paralinguistic

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How to use paralinguistic in a sentence

Conversational AI technology is set up in a way that could succeed if we took that approach at the pragmatic layer—the paralinguistic side of things.
Building customer relationships with conversational AI | Martha Leibs | March 29, 2021 | MIT Technology Review

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