Usually means: Expressing social relationship, not content.
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  1. phatically: Merriam-Webster
  2. phatically: Collins English Dictionary
  3. phatically: Wiktionary
  4. phatically: Dictionary.com
  5. phatically: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a phatic manner.

Similar:
phosphatically, vatically, pataphysically, heartfully, phallically, cataphatically, manneristically, cathedratically, aphoristically, heartily, more...

Opposite:
apathetically, emotionlessly, unemotionally

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Similar:
phosphatically, vatically, pataphysically, heartfully, phallically, cataphatically, manneristically, cathedratically, aphoristically, heartily, more...

Opposite:
apathetically, emotionlessly, unemotionally



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