metatextual
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Constituting self-referential text (text about the text); for example, as mentioned earlier herein.
adj
Of or pertaining to metatextuality.
Example Sentences
- "Still, the meta-textual cleverness of the whole affair takes a little while to settle into, partly because the early storylines feel so routine."
- "The metatextual tweak to the then-tired franchise was a creative shot in the arm, and though it didn’t set the box office on fire, it set the stage for Scream’s brilliant deconstruction of the genre."