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palincestuous

palincestuous is the alternative form of palimpsestuous.

Meaning of palimpsestuous

Adjective

palimpsestuous (comparative more palimpsestuous, superlative most palimpsestuous)

  1. Pertaining to the textual relationality of a palimpsest; referential to earlier works or self-referential between several meanings of a single text.
    • But this missive from Boston may be taken as a palimpcestuous précis of Finnegans Wake itself1965, Anthony Burgess, “ALP and her Letter”, in Re Joyce, page 210

Forms of palincestuous

comparativemore palincestuous
superlativemost palincestuous

Origin of palincestuous

Blend of palimpsest + incestuous, spelled to emphasise incestuous.

Questions about palincestuous

What is palincestuous the alternative form of?
Palincestuous is the alternative form of palimpsestuous.

Words near palincestuous in the dictionary

  1. palinactinodromous
  2. palinacusis
  3. palinal
  4. palinally
  5. palinavir
  6. palincestuous
  7. Palindan
  8. palindromatic
  9. palindrome
  10. palindromes
  11. palindromia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palincestuous (page history and authors); palimpsestuous (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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