Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

metasequential

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: metase-quen-tial
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to a metasequence.

Example Sentences

"Moreover, this supporting account contains the metalinguistic, or more properly metasequential, term reason, which encodes the speaker’s awareness of the conversational method that he is employing (i.e. reasons are realized in the form of accounts)."
"Her turn ends with an invitation to the Doctor to formulate, ‘so’, which he appears to anticipate. Being unwilling to formulate, in his next turn he confirms that he understood (metasequential right), adding a supplementary inquiry, ‘the whole lot’, which Nicole confirms with a minimal ‘yeah’."
"Higher-order-iterations of conditionals require higher-order metasequential constructions."

Etymology

metasequence + -ial

Word Breakdown

Suffix: metasequence

Inflected Forms

more metasequential (comparative) most metasequential (superlative)

Questions

What does metasequential mean?: Of or pertaining to a metasequence.
Where does metasequential come from?: metasequence + -ial

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