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metaquotidian en · ADJ

Etymology

Blend of metaphysical + quotidian or meta- + quotidian

Meanings

1. Arising from and transcending everyday objects or practices; pertaining to the deeper meaning to be found in the ordinary.
   • What appears to be second nature is made strange, as his cartographies of Locust Avenue and its environs turn the suburban “countryside” into a zone of dematerialized space, a metaquotidian map. 2015, DC Turner, “Made Things”, in The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the US South:
   • But in every instance the commonplace thing is transformed by metaphor, the figure that moves the object toward the metaquotidian. 2009, Robert D. Denham, The Early Poetry of Charles Wright: A Companion, 1960-1990, →ISBN, page 65:
   • The theatre of a spiritual gesture — in memory of Helmut Kajzar — an exposition of a personal concept of acting; a history of co-operation with Kajzar; ..allowing myself to make so drastic confessions that I intended to be a metaphysical actor ... means that I've confirmed my organic relationship with the metaquotidian theatre". 1991, Notatnik teatralny - Volumes 1-4, page 221:
   • We live in the wind-chill, The what-if and what-was-not, The blown and sour dust of just after or just before, The metaquotidian landscape of soft edge and abyss. 1997, Charles Wright, Black Zodiac:

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