1. thoughts
Words express thoughts.
And we can communicate so many things in so many ways - with our faces, hands, bodies, and voices. We can even write our thoughts in words.
In linguistics, the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis states that there are certain thoughts of an individual in one language that cannot be understood by those who live in another language.
When she dumped me, the shock of it was like a huge gong going off and scrambling all my thoughts.
It's obvious but the connection between people is "words". It is by those words that thoughts are shared and arguments carried out.
In its broadest sense communication includes all forms of transmitting thoughts or feelings between people.
I don't expect him to understand my innermost thoughts but I wonder what I can do to get him to hold an interest.
Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Language has, at the same time as being method of expressing one's thoughts, the side of being something used to think with.
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
Baffled by Sherlock Holmes' cryptic remarks, Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.
I know you want to marry me now, but don't you think you'll have second thoughts afterward?
No man can know them, no hunter can shoot them, with powder and lead - Thoughts are free!
Music that doesn't transmit feelings, images, thoughts, or memories is just background noise.