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View synonyms for deictic
deictic
[ dahyk-tik ]
adjective
- Logic. proving directly.
- Grammar. specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of one or more of the participants in an act of speech or writing, in the context of either an external situation or the surrounding discourse, as we, you, here, there, now, then, this, that, the former, or the latter.
noun
- Grammar. a deictic element.
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Derived Forms
- ˈdeictically, adverb
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Other Words From
- deicti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of deictic1
C17: from Greek deiktikos concerning proof, from deiknunai to show
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