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meta-ness

meta-ness is the alternative form of metaness.

Meaning of metaness

Noun

metaness (uncountable)

  1. (informal, uncommon) Self-referentiality and self-awareness, especially of tropes in art and fiction.
    • And we know it also because the “metaness” of the communication becomes apparent in the fact that they not only simply play, but play with play.1988, Robert Newsom, A Likely Story: Probability and Play in Fiction, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 186

Questions about meta-ness

What is meta-ness the alternative form of?
Meta-ness is the alternative form of metaness.

Words near meta-ness in the dictionary

  1. meta-knowledge
  2. meta-knowledges
  3. meta-level
  4. meta-model
  5. meta-models
  6. meta-ness
  7. meta-ophiolite
  8. meta-progression
  9. meta-system
  10. meta-systems
  11. meta-textual

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meta-ness (page history and authors); metaness (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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