Nonverbal communication
![Understanding each other; seen in a street near the bell tower of Xi'an, China.](/Images/godic/202501/30/Understanding_in_Xian_05460744.jpg")
![Symbol table for non-verbal communication with patients](/Images/godic/202501/30/PatientCommTbl0744.png")
![Information about the relationship and affect of these two skaters is communicated by their body posture, eye gaze and physical contact.](/Images/godic/202501/30/AModesMannersC0744.jpg")
![A high five is an example of communicative touch.](/Images/godic/202501/30/High-five0744.jpg")
Nonverbal communication between people is communication through sending and receiving wordless clues.
It includes the use of visual cues such as body language (kinesics), distance (proxemics) and physical environments/appearance, of voice (paralanguage) and of touch (haptics). It can also include chronemics (the use of time) and oculesics (eye contact and the actions of looking while talking and listening, frequency of glances, patterns of fixation, pupil dilation, and blink rate).