phatic
Pronunciation: /ˈfætɪk/
The English word “phatic” has 2 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.
noun
- A phatic utterance.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φατός (phatós, “spoken”) - from φημί (phēmí, “I say”) - + -ic. Probably formally influenced by emphatic, which predates this term.
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