anticanonical

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adjective

Opposing or challenging a canon.

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Meanings

adjectiveanticanonical (comparative more anticanonical, superlative most anticanonical)

comparative more anticanonical · superlative most anticanonical

  1. Opposing or challenging a canon.

    When critical reading is established as a global language of value, such maneuvers become necessary to rescue texts for any canon, even the anticanonical canon.

    2012, Jane Gallop, Polemic: Critical or Uncritical, page 32
  2. not comparablemathematicsOf or relating to the inverse bundle corresponding to a canonical bundle.

Origin

From anti- + canonical.

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APA

anticanonical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticanonical

MLA

“anticanonical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticanonical. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anticanonical,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticanonical.

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