Intimation qualifies verbalisation, so that a particular content may be given emphasis by widening of the eyes, narrowing of the eyes, blinking, pupillary dilatation, unfocused eyes, lachrymosity, change of eye contact, glances, staring, wrinkling of the skin between the eyes, wrinkling of the skin around the eyes, nostril flares, nostril wrinkles, blowing out of the cheeks, pursed lips, pouting, narrowing of the mouth, widening of the mouth, baring of the teeth, increase in respiratory rate, decrease in respiratory rate, gasping, talking while breathing in, grinning, grimacing, contracting the jaw muscles, swallowing hard, and movements of the trunk and limbs, including changes in personal space.
Sudden changes in posture, such as rapid flexion and extension of the heeled foot of a crossed leg, are used to distract, so as to exercise conversational control.
The smell of peppermint may be used to conceal the smell of alcohol. Strong fragrances may be intended to offset the smell of sweat, or to beguile.
Excretory smells require a medical consultation.
A dry mouth suggests anxiety.
Cosmetics, tight clothing, and tattoos intimate possible discrepancies between how one feels one’s body to be, and how one thinks one’s body appears to other people.
Long, pointed fingernails intimate hostility.
Whistling, humming, sighing, tutting, sniffing and yawning are intimations.
The intimation of mirror lenses ranges from a wish for privacy to a wish to provoke curiosity.

Unfocused eyes suggest visual imagery.
Wrinkling of the skin between the eyes signals perplexity.
Contraction of the jaw muscles, that is the masseter muscles, signals anger.
Touching of the nose, face, or head conveys uncertainty at best, mendacity at worst.
Nostril flares suggest anger.
Nostril wrinkles suggest allergy.
The more gesticulations, the less substance has the rhetoric.
Quivering of the hands indicates anxiety or anger.
Clenched fists, pronated forearms and a convex chest are the antitheses of open palms, supinated forearms and a chest made concave by a shrug of the shoulders.

The speaker defines background noise through the frequency, amplitude and rate of intimation, so that signals are changes in the frequency, amplitude and rate of any intimation; the greater the change, the more likely it is to be relevant to the verbal content at the moment of the change.

The time taken for a nerve signal to cross a nerve gap is about 0.001 seconds, so the longer the pause between question and answer, the more likely the answer is to have been premeditated.
A paused response may be accompanied by the stillness of deliberation, or by the edginess of denial.

Skilled communicators dissemble and dissimulate. The art of seduction, embodied by the Mona Lisa, is to dissemble, so that lack of definition invites the maximum number of apperceptions: the seducer then mimics the intimations, vocalisations and verbalisations of preferred apperceivers.

A human in parasitic mode mimics the intimations of the intended host.

Thespian activity tells us that intimations can be learned and repeated. Film stars dissemble so as to maximise their appeal.

Cultures, subcultures and families can be scaled in their openness about adult communication.

Intimations between carers and infants require systematic study, with autism as an outcome variable. The importance of pauses for information transfer has been studied in social insects.

The silent bared teeth of Macaca nigra may occur in the contexts of affiliation, copulation, play, and submission, with different rates, intensities and anatomical accompaniments in each context.

In the early 20th century, the horse Clever Hans appeared to be able to perform arithmetic. Hans was, in fact, watching, and listening to, the intimations of his trainer.