metaquotidian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Arising from and transcending everyday objects or practices; pertaining to the deeper meaning to be found in the ordinary.
Example Sentences
- "The theatre of a spiritual gesture — in memory of Helmut Kajzar — an exposition of a personal concept of acting; a history of co-operation with Kajzar; ..allowing myself to make so drastic confessions that I intended to be a metaphysical actor ... means that I've confirmed my organic relationship with the metaquotidian theatre"."
- "We live in the wind-chill, The what-if and what-was-not, The blown and sour dust of just after or just before, The metaquotidian landscape of soft edge and abyss."
- "But in every instance the commonplace thing is transformed by metaphor, the figure that moves the object toward the metaquotidian."
- "What appears to be second nature is made strange, as his cartographies of Locust Avenue and its environs turn the suburban “countryside” into a zone of dematerialized space, a metaquotidian map."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more metaquotidian (comparative)
most metaquotidian (superlative)