Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

extratextual

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-tra-tex-tu-al
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Outside of a text.

Example Sentences

"Meditation on reader-response and meaning seems tedious by comparison, and not always free from jargon: do we need to speak of a reader's 'ideational activity'? (p. 173); why do we need to 'actualize ourselves as a second and extratextual audience'? (pp. 110f.). Do we have to be told that ‘Eliciting the hermeneutical activity of characters and readers alike, oneirography like pictorial descriptions invites the inferential walk’? (p. 81)."

Etymology

From extra- + textual.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: extra

Derived Forms

extratextuality extratextually

Frequently Paired Words

exophoric paratextual peritextual epitextual subtextual contextual

Antonyms

intratextual textual

Questions

What does extratextual mean?: Outside of a text.
Where does extratextual come from?: From extra- + textual.

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