unlanguaged

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ languaged.

Adjective

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unlanguaged (not comparable)

  1. Not expressed with language.
    • 1856, The Church of England quarterly review, page 259:
      [] we cannot often indulge in pure unlanguaged ecstasy, just as we cannot often employ pure unlanguaged thought. Both thought and feeling shape themselves into words []
    • 2003, Carmel Flaskas, Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism:
      Some narrative theorists try to meet the issue of unlanguaged experience by extending the very concept of narrative to include forms of narrative outside languaged narrative.