The Dictionary Definition of Communication is Wrong

It completely ignores the most vital element!

Yasmin McNeill
YouMeUs
1 min readJan 28, 2021

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Type into Google ‘define communication’ and you’ll be faced with this blanket definition: “the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.”

But communication is so much more than that. It’s tethered to emotion, reaction, impulse, movement, medium, mode: the irony of the definition is that it can’t effectively communicate what its’ own self is.

What makes for effective communication? In a fast-paced world becoming more and more disjointed and separated physically, how can we —in our business, family, social and own selves — keep advancing our communicative abilities?

Youmeus is a publication dedicated to honing this most important facet.

We encourage you to digest our articles and engage with your own viewpoints. Or, if you have a particular story with a communicative message to share, submit it to us for publishing.

See you over there…

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Yasmin McNeill
YouMeUs
Editor for

A lover of pinot noir, puzzles and poetry. Editor for medium.com/youmeus — the publication dedicated to sharpening your communication skills.