Term | Definition |
Adage | Saying, often in metaphoric form, that embodies a common observation. |
Aggressive | Forceful or intended to dominate, hostile, injurious or destructive, especially when referring to a behavior caused by frustration. |
Ambiguous | Capable of being understood in two or more possible senses of ways; unclear |
Animate | To fill with life; to give spirit and support to expressions |
Battery | Offensive touching or use of force on a person without his or her consent |
Caustic | Marked by sarcasm |
Channels | Means of communication of expression |
Comfort zone | Place in the mind where an individual feels safe and confident. |
Congruent | Beings in agreement, harmony, or correspondence |
Decodes | Concerts, as in a message, into intelligible for; recognizes and interprets |
Defense mechanism | Psychological methods of dealing with stressful situations that are encountered in day to day living |
Encodes | Converts from one system of communication to another |
Encroachment | Actions that advance beyond the unusual or proper limits |
Enunciate | Utter articulate sounds; act of being very distinct in speech |
External noise | Sounds or factors outside the brain that interfere with the communication process |
Externalizations | Attribution of an event or occurrence to cause outside self |
Feedback | Transmission of evaluative or corrective information to the original or controlling source about an action, event or process |
Grief | Reaction to an unfortunate outcome; a deep distress caused by bereavement, a loss, or a perceived loss |
Internal noise | Factors inside the brain that interfere with the communication process |
Language barrier | Type of interference that inhibits the communication process and is related to languages spoken by the people attempting to communicate |
Litigious | Prone to engage in lawsuits |
Malediction | Speaking evil or the calling of a curse |
Media | Term applied to agencies of mass communications such as newspapers, magazines and telecommunications |
Paraphrasing | Express an idea in a different wording in an effort to enhance communications |
Perception | Capacity for comprehension |
Physiologic noise | Physiologic interferences with the communication process |
Pitch | Highness or lowness of s sound |
Proxemics | Study of nature, degree and effect of the spatial superstitions individuals naturally maintain |
Sarcasm | Sharp often satirical response or ironic utterance designed to cut or inflict pain |
Stereotype | Something conforming to a fixed or general pattern |
Stressors | Stimuli that causes stress |
Subtle | Difficult to understand or perceive |
Thanatology | Study of phenomena of death and a psychological methods of coping with death |
Vehemently | In a manner marked by forceful energy |
Volatile | Easily aroused; tending to erupt in violence |