Synonyms & related words for perlocutionary

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Words related to perlocutionary

Explore words related to perlocutionary — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include illocutionary, illocution, perlocution, locutionary, deixis, paralinguistics, grammaticalization, tagmemics. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does perlocutionary come from?

The word perlocutionary breaks down into 3 roots of Latin origin: per-, from Latin per (“through, thoroughly”); locution, from Latin loqui (“to speak”); and -ary, from Latin arius (“pertaining to”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.