supercultural en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English -al English cultural English supercultural From super- + cultural.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Transcending cultures; common across several or all cultures.
Ben-Amos (1969) argues that folklorists have consistently confounded supercultural with ethnographic genres, and that they have been troubled by the discrepancies between the two.
2011, Neal R. Norrick, How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs, page 58:To sum up: I think that cultural relativism is the position according to which there is no supercultural perspective, no supercultural conceptual scheme, or at least they are not attainable […]
1996, Anna Zeidler, Epistemology and History, page 545: