EXPRESSIVENESS Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

expressiveness

noun

Definition of expressiveness

as in expression

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inarticulateness

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Recent Examples of expressiveness Users can customize not only the accent and gender of the voice assistant, but also the pace and expressiveness. — Greta Cross, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 Houston could soar within it because Parton imbued it with a musical and sentimental purity that made room for the enormity of her expressiveness. — Ann Powers, NPR, 26 Aug. 2026 Instead, the speakers who resonate most today are those who loosen up and embrace a more idiosyncratic, less perfect expressiveness. — Matt Abrahams, Time, 5 Aug. 2026 What expressiveness in the robot changed in participants was how their brains handled the moment. — Yigit Topoglu, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026 Users can now customize how Siri sounds through new pacing and expressiveness controls, while also interacting with the assistant through voice or text. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 June 2026 With the new upgrade, users can now even customize the expressiveness or pace of Siri’s voice. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026 Through the various forces, a huge one of them being social media, there’s been a loss of expressiveness. — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 7 June 2026 Despite us having just seen the episode where Reid performed this exact song, his vocals felt like they were shot out of a cannon — Reid has an unexpected control and expressiveness to his live singing voice that emphasizes the already theatrical lyrics and melody. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 3 June 2026

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Noun

Photographed and directed by Gabriel Moses, the campaign brings each icon into sharp focus, placing them at the center of a crowd as a powerful expression of individuality.

— Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
Some movements feel unnatural, facial expressions are exaggerated, and small details occasionally fall into the uncanny valley or break rules of logical consistency.

— Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of expression

Noun

Played by the six-foot-six David Prowse and voiced with eloquence and controlled rage by James Earl Jones, Vader is a force of inescapable menace throughout George Lucas’s Star Wars trilogy.

— John Roy, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026
In their eloquence and their ways of avoiding easy comfort, the poems also deal with the hushed experience of surviving someone else’s death and fulfill the urge to say something not only real and true but formal and exact, as though for a ceremony.

— Colm Tóibín, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of eloquence

Noun

Jeffrey, who had one daughter, wrote poetry and rap lyrics with a social conscience and was involved in jailhouse ministry while he was incarcerated.

— Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
But when Batter gets a dream job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of poetry

Noun

And a Gallup poll last year revealed a majority of Americans feel that both parties have gone too far in their use of inflammatory rhetoric to criticize their opponents.

— Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026
The rhetoric from Rogers and other Republicans about El-Sayed has added to those frustrations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of rhetoric

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