phatic

6 letters · adjective · scores 1,400 in SpellHuntr

adjective

Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.

Phatic in a sentence

Some dialects of a language may use a certain term or phrase in a phatic way, even if other dialects don't.

Generally speaking, statements in WE are expected to be of a tautologous nature, thus fulfilling the essential phatic nature of speech.

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