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facial expression

Motions or positions of subcutaneous human face muscles, conveying emotional state

EntityQ327968

Also known as expression

Subclass of: nonverbal communication
, emotional expression

Overview

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Facial expression is a motion and positioning of the muscles beneath the skin of the face. These movements convey the emotional state of an individual to observers and 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.

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Main Wikidata property: expression, gesture or body pose
Cause: facial movement

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33 identifiers linking facial expression across the web's reference databases

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AIDB. (2026). facial expression (Q327968). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/facial-expression-Q327968