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Definitions
Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.
Word origin
From Ancient Greek φατός (phatós, “spoken”) - from φημί (phēmí, “I say”) - + -ic.
Used in a sentence
“You needn't be angry about the insincerity of shopkeepers' how-are-you greetings. Well-adjusted people understand that the question is phatic in the context and that that's usually no problem.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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