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metaness en · NOUN

Etymology

From meta (“self-referential”) + -ness or meta- + -ness.

Meanings

1. (informal, uncommon, uncountable) Self-referentiality and self-awareness, especially of tropes in art and fiction.
   • “Metaness” is in the mind of the beholder. 2001, Elliotte Rusty Harold, XML Bible, Wiley, →ISBN, page 111:
   • And we know it also because the “metaness” of the communication becomes apparent in the fact that they not only simply play, but play with play. 1988, Robert Newsom, A Likely Story: Probability and Play in Fiction, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 186:

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