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high-context

adjective

  1. preferring to communicate in person, rather than by electronic methods such as email Compare low-context
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The fact some people are posting about being demure, cutesty and mindful in a serious way shows "how nuances are lost when messages travel from the high-context in-groups to the low-context outgroups", he says.

From BBC

“The NFT conversation can be particularly high-context, from technical jargon, our own memes, and the random menagerie of the latest projects and their respective animals,” Ong said.

By contrast, in high-context cultures, as in Asia, people may communicate more subtly.

It was, as the writer Siddharth Deb calls it, a “high-context culture.”

"We believe that communication among wearables will be increasingly high-context," says Kamijo.

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