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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024deic•tic (dīk′tik),USA pronunciation adj. - Philosophy[Logic.]proving directly.
- Grammarspecifying 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.
n. - Grammara deictic element.
- Greek deiktikós demonstrative, equivalent. to deikt(ós) able to be proved, verb, verbal adjective, adjectival of deiknýnai to show, prove, point + -ikos -ic
- 1820–30
deic′ti•cal•ly, adv. |