deictic

[ dahyk-tik ]
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adjective
  1. Logic. proving directly.

  2. 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
  1. Grammar. a deictic element.

Origin of deictic

1
1820–30; <Greek deiktikós demonstrative, equivalent to deikt(ós) able to be proved, verbal adjective of deiknýnai to show, prove, point + -ikos-ic

Other words from deictic

  • deic·ti·cal·ly, adverb

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British Dictionary definitions for deictic

deictic

/ (ˈdaɪktɪk) /


adjective
  1. logic proving by direct argument: Compare elenctic

noun
  1. another word for indexical (def. 2)

Origin of deictic

1
C17: from Greek deiktikos concerning proof, from deiknunai to show

Derived forms of deictic

  • deictically, adverb

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