expression
The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
Other meanings
A particular way of phrasing an idea.
A colloquialism or idiom.
“The expression "break a leg!" should not be taken literally.”
Synonyms
- look
- aspect
- facial expression
- face
Related words
- agroexpression
- coexpression
- downexpression
- dysexpression
- expressionful
- expressionist
- expressionlet
- hyperexpression
- hypoexpression
- immunoexpression
- inexpression
- microexpression
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "expressiō" (expressiō, expressiōnem).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “expression” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.