Architexture
//ˈɑɹkɪˌtɛkst͡ʃəɹ// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A metatextual entity created through multiple texts or works; a category or semantic construct embodied by a class of artistic works. countable, uncountable
"Dickens's architextures do not present us with a form – of a building, of the city – as a meaning, system or structure. Rather, we are presented with the textual event, the architextural event, as a means of exposing the limits of fixed meaning, and, by this, the limits of the utterable."
- 2 Eggcorn of architecture. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"Dickens's architextures do not present us with a form – of a building, of the city – as a meaning, system or structure. Rather, we are presented with the textual event, the architextural event, as a means of exposing the limits of fixed meaning, and, by this, the limits of the utterable."
Etymology
From archi- + texture.
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