What does facial expression mean?

Definitions for facial expression

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. facial expression, facial gesture(noun)

    a gesture executed with the facial muscles

  2. expression, look, aspect, facial expression, face(noun)

    the feelings expressed on a person's face



  1. facial expression(Noun)

    The expression or countenance that seems to an onlooker to be represented by the appearance of a person's face, resulting from specific use of that person's facial muscles.


  1. Facial expression

    A facial expression is one or more motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face. These movements convey the emotional state of an individual to observers. Facial expressions are a form of nonverbal communication. They are a primary means of conveying social information between humans, but they also occur in most other mammals and some other animal species. Humans can adopt a facial expression voluntarily or involuntarily, and the neural mechanisms responsible for controlling the expression differ in each case. Voluntary facial expressions are often socially conditioned and follow a cortical route in the brain. Conversely, involuntary facial expressions are believed to be innate and follow a subcortical route in the brain. Facial recognition is often an emotional experience for the brain and the amygdala is highly involved in the recognition process. The eyes are often viewed as important features of facial expressions. Aspects such as blinking rate can be used to indicate whether or not a person is nervous or whether or not he or she is lying. Also, eye contact is considered an important aspect of interpersonal communication. However, there are cultural differences regarding the social propriety of maintaining eye contact or not.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Facial Expression



  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of facial expression in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of facial expression in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

  1. Photographer Jonathan Bachman:

    She had no facial expression at all. She just stood there.

  2. Phillip McGraw:


  3. Thomas Yoxall:

    I yell out to the suspect to stop, I said' get off him !' his facial expression, the look in his eye( was)' evil' if I had to put a word on it.

  4. Demetrius Griffin:

    He let off eight rounds, reloaded, let off another eight, reloaded again, he was very docile. In his facial expression, no smiling, laughing, talking.

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