English-Finnish translations for phatic

• faattinen
  Ystävän tervehtiminen kadulla on faattista viestintää

Definition of phatic

• 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

Related words

• emphatically
• emphatic
• lymphatic
• aliphatic
• phosphatic
• emphatical
• apophatic
• apophatically
• cataphatic