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An honorific is a title that conveys esteem, courtesy, or respect for position or rank when used in addressing or referring to a person. It is also often conflated with systems of honorific speech in linguistics, which are grammatical or morphological ways of encoding the relative social status of speakers. Honorifics can be used as prefixes or suffixes depending on the appropriate occasion and presentation in accordance with style and customs. Sometimes, the term "honorific" is used in a more specific sense, to refer to an honorary academic title.
Typically, honorifics are used as a style in the grammatical third person (e.g., His Holiness), and as a form of address in the second person (e.g., Your Majesty). Some languages have anti-honorific (despective or humilific) first person forms (expressions such as "your most humble servant" or "this unworthy person") whose effect is to enhance the relative honor accorded to the person addressed; these are nowadays used only in formal written correspondence.
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