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▸ adjective: (linguistics) Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.
▸ noun: (linguistics) Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
▸ noun: (linguistics, more narrowly) A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.
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communicative,
revelatory,
communicatory,
indicative of,
sentient,
atmospheric,
expressivist,
poetic,
felt,
presentative,
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