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anticanonical

anticanonical adjective: opposing or challenging a canon.

Adjective

anticanonical (comparative more anticanonical, superlative most anticanonical)

  1. Opposing or challenging a canon.
    • When critical reading is established as a global language of value, such maneuvers become necessary to rescue texts for any canon, even the anticanonical canon.2012, Jane Gallop, Polemic: Critical or Uncritical, page 32
  2. (not comparable) Of or relating to the inverse bundle corresponding to a canonical bundle.

Forms of anticanonical

comparativemore anticanonical
superlativemost anticanonical

Origin of anticanonical

From anti- + canonical.

Questions about anticanonical

What does anticanonical mean?
Anticanonical means opposing or challenging a canon.
What part of speech is anticanonical?
Anticanonical is an adjective.

Words near anticanonical in the dictionary

  1. anticandidal
  2. anticannibal
  3. anticannibalism
  4. anticannibalistic
  5. anticanon
  6. anticanonical
  7. anticanons
  8. anticapital
  9. anticapitalism
  10. anticapitalisms
  11. anticapitalist

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