Antitextual

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Opposing a text or textual conventions.

    "Jane Harrison was perceived by angry classicists, those strict formalists of her day who worshiped the text, as antitextual. Her major works were written in the vivid, colloquial style of women's conversation, punctuated with jokes[…]"

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"Jane Harrison was perceived by angry classicists, those strict formalists of her day who worshiped the text, as antitextual. Her major works were written in the vivid, colloquial style of women's conversation, punctuated with jokes[…]"

Etymology

From anti- + textual.

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