facial expression

motions or positions of subcutaneous human face muscles, conveying emotional state
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facial expression

Summary

facial expression ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (759 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • facial expression is a type of nonverbal communication[2].
  • facial expression is a type of emotional expression[3].
  • facial expression's Commons category is recorded as Facial expressions[4].
  • facial expression's has cause is recorded as facial movement[5].
  • facial expression's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Facial expressions[6].
  • facial expression's described by source is recorded as The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals[7].
  • facial expression's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • facial expression's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • facial expression's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • facial expression's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11].
  • facial expression's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[12].
  • facial expression's main Wikidata property is recorded as P6022[13].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include nonverbal communication[2] and emotional expression[3].

Why It Matters

facial expression ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (759 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of nonverbal communication, emotional expression
    Aliases
    Main wikidata property P6022
    Subclass of
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 7717, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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