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locutionary [loh-kyoo-shuh-ner-ee] WORD ORIGIN adjective Philosophy, Linguistics. pertaining to the act of conveying semantic content in an utterance, considered as independent of the interaction between the speaker and the listener. Liberaldictionary.com
Compare illocutionary, perlocutionary. Origin of locutionary First recorded in 1950–55; locution + -ary Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019