metastory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An overarching story having other stories embedded within it.
noun
A story about stories themselves.
Example Sentences
- "Once analytic units have been identified, the researcher will often combine the narratives of individual participants into a metastory."
- "A game like chess, for example, may not really have a well-scripted narrative but its structure is certainly informed by a metastory of two armies (black and white, with varying significances) engaged in strategic battle."
- "The Assassin's Creed franchise is framed within a present day metastory involving a major corporation that may or may not be run by Templars."