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PHATIC SPEECH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Conversational speech used to communicate sociability more than information
Synonyms:
phatic communication; phatic speech
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("phatic speech" is a kind of...):
conversation (the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.)
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