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extratextual

extratextual adjective: outside of a text.

Adjective

extratextual (not comparable)

  1. Outside of a text.
    • 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...1991, The Classical Review, volume 41, D. Nutt, page 97

Antonyms of extratextual

Origin of extratextual

From extra- + textual.

Words formed from extratextual

Questions about extratextual

What does extratextual mean?
Extratextual means outside of a text.
What part of speech is extratextual?
Extratextual is an adjective.

Words near extratextual in the dictionary

  1. extraterritorialized
  2. extraterritorializes
  3. extraterritorializing
  4. extraterritorially
  5. extratesticular
  6. extratextual
  7. extratextuality
  8. extratextually
  9. extrathalamic
  10. extrathecal
  11. extratheistic

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