{"id":1098,"date":"2023-12-12T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/12\/word-of-the-day-phatic\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T14:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:24:02","slug":"word-of-the-day-phatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/12\/word-of-the-day-phatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: ‘Phatic’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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phatic \/f\u0103t\u2032\u012dk\/<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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adjective<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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  1. Of or relating to communication used to perform a social function rather than to convey information or ideas.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship e.g polite mood, rather than meaning; for example, "How are you?" is often not a literal question but is said only as a greeting. (Similarly, a response such as "Fine" is often not an accurate answer, but merely an acknowledgement of the greeting.).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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    The American Heritage\u00ae Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition \u2022 More at Wordnik<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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    Don't confuse 'phatic' with 'vatic.'<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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    vatic \/v\u0103t\u2032\u012dk\/<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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    adjective<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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    1. Of or characteristic of a prophet; oracular.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Pertaining to a prophet<\/a>; prophetic<\/a>, oracular<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.<\/span>\n
      "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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      The American Heritage\u00ae Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition \u2022 More at Wordnik<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      phatic \/f\u0103t\u2032\u012dk\/   adjective Of or relating to communication used to perform a social function rather than to convey information or ideas. Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship e.g polite mood, rather than meaning; for example, "How are you?" is often not a literal question but is said only as a … Continue reading “Word of the Day: ‘Phatic’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}