metanarrative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.38 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A narrative which concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge and offers legitimation of such through the anticipated completion of some master idea; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.
adj
Of or relating to a metanarrative.
Example Sentences
- "The narratives are important in themselves as significant pieces of the metanarrative of suspicion in which activist politics have been embedded since the McCarthy era (with roots much earlier)."
- "Even the richest metanarratives of finitude cannot ultimately explain themselves, for they have no way to synoptically do so: a larger metanarrative, one rooted in the metaphysical, is required."
- "That is not to say that Snakewalk departs from the metanarrative of blindness completely, or even substantially, but rather that it contains much detail that is evidently informed by experiential knowledge."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
metanarratives (plural)
meta-narrative (alternative)