Definitions

1. adjective

relating to or denoting words or expressions that indicate the speaker’s attitude or the relationships between things, such as this, that, here, and there

“The linguist studied deictic words and their usage in different languages.”

2. noun

a word or expression that indicates the speaker’s attitude or the relationships between things

“In the sentence ‘I’m going over there’, ‘there’ is a deictic word.”