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supercultural

supercultural adjective: transcending cultures; common across several or all cultures.

Adjective

supercultural (not comparable)

  1. Transcending cultures; common across several or all cultures.
    • To sum up: I think that cultural relativism is the position according to which there is no supercultural perspective, no supercultural conceptual scheme, or at least they are not attainable […]1996, Anna Zeidler, Epistemology and History, page 545
    • Ben-Amos (1969) argues that folklorists have consistently confounded supercultural with ethnographic genres, and that they have been troubled by the discrepancies between the two.2011, Neal R. Norrick, How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs, page 58

Origin of supercultural

From super- + cultural.

Questions about supercultural

What does supercultural mean?
Supercultural means transcending cultures; common across several or all cultures.
What part of speech is supercultural?
Supercultural is an adjective.

Words near supercultural in the dictionary

  1. supercube
  2. supercubes
  3. supercult
  4. supercultivated
  5. supercults
  6. supercultural
  7. superculture
  8. supercultures
  9. supercunt
  10. supercunts
  11. supercup

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