Antitextual
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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[…]"
Example
More examples"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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