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cybertext

cybertext noun: text on a computer, particularly hypertext.

Noun

cybertext (countable and uncountable, plural cybertexts)

  1. Text on a computer, particularly hypertext
    • The sense of mystory^([sic]) opens up for academics the conceptual space of allowing students a singular journey through a cybertext.1999, Wita Wojtkowski, Systems development methods for databases, enterprise modeling, and workflow management
    • Cybertext may promote such a strong feeling of distance between readers, writers, and texts that referentiality to material conditions is downplayed. The very physical act of holding a book and turning its pages-in a sense, much more interactive than clicking a mouse[…]2002, Cheryl J Fish, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Women's studies then and now
    1. (uncountable) Mutually interactive, technologically enhanced text as described by Aarseth.
      • Procedural and generative cybertext work undermines the concept of authorship and encourages the discussion about 'cyborg authorship'2005, Eva Müller-Zettelmann, Margarete Rubik, Theory into poetry: new approaches to the lyric

Forms of cybertext

pluralcybertexts

Origin of cybertext

From cyber- + text, perhaps popularised by Espen J. Aarseth's 1997 "Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature"; though "The Cybertext Corporation" existed in Arcata in the 1980s.

Questions about cybertext

What does cybertext mean?
Cybertext means text on a computer, particularly hypertext.
What part of speech is cybertext?
Cybertext is a noun.
What is the plural of cybertext?
The plural of cybertext is cybertexts.

Words near cybertext in the dictionary

  1. cyberterritory
  2. cyberterror
  3. cyberterrorism
  4. cyberterrorist
  5. cyberterrorists
  6. cybertext
  7. cybertexts
  8. cybertextual
  9. cybertextualities
  10. cybertextuality
  11. cybertextually

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cybertext (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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