phatic Definition

rhetorical device, epideictic, epidictic, breviloquence, brachyology, wordish, verbal, parenetic, hortative, facound, unrhetorical, preceptial, anacoluthic, rhetorical, expressive style, figure of speech, speechful, pauciloquy, terse, circumlocutional, declamatory, emphatic, conversational, bombastry, conversationism, ecobabble, nonvocalic, eloquent, circumlocutionary, suaviloquy, perissological, dorism, tralation, kyriology, hortatory, set phrase, poetic, antiphrastic, autological, emphaticalness, inaniloquent, discursive, double talk, emotive, circumlocutious, wordy, platitudinize, extradictionary, meaningless, sermocination, facundity, colloquial, laconize, blabbermouthed, anacoluthia, intrasentential, hysteron proteron, nonverbal, parisyllabic, multiloquous, speech act, illocutionary, semasiological, interjectional, direct speech, paralinguistic, communicative, altiloquent, dulciloquy, oxytone, pep talk, doricism, imparisyllabic, enunciative, function word, forespeech, metalinguistic, biverbal, vernaculous, ecthlipsis, amphilogy, confabulatory, language unit, nonverbal communication, grandiloquent, formal language, succinct, slangy, enunciable, intralinguistic, demonstrative, sentential, unverbalized, oratorical, bigmouthed, multiloquy, pithy, hold forth, nonlexical, endophasia,