コミュニケーション

コミュニケーション covers interpersonal communication broadly — exchanging ideas, feelings, and information. It is used in both everyday and business/academic contexts.

Loanword

From English "communication."

Common collocations

• コミュニケーションを取(と)る (to communicate)
• コミュニケーション能力(のうりょく) (communication skills)
• コミュニケーション不足(ぶそく) (lack of communication)
• コミュニケーションを図(はか)る (to seek to communicate)

Forms

Often shortened to コミュ in casual compound words:

• コミュ力(りょく) (communication ability — slang)
• コミュ障(しょう) (communication disorder — colloquial, sometimes offensive)

Usage

Unlike English, the verb pairing is コミュニケーションを取(と)る (literally "take communication"), not する.