metanarrative
Meanings
noun
- A narrative which concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge and offers legitimation of such through the anticipated completion of some master idea; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.
adj
- Of or relating to a metanarrative.
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Etymology
From meta- (“transcending; of a level above”) + narrative (“recitation of a story”).
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