Meanings
plural citationalities
- countableuncountableA measure of the relative number of citations in a work.
- countableuncountableA Derridan idea of "signatures" within a work that have recognizable form and can be repeated.
And the citationality of these acts—and the calibration of such citationalities to each other—materializes as the very media forms in question.
2016, Constantine V. Nakassis, Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India, page 2301 more example
Yet the old guard continues to admit new heirs in the ongoing popular and scholarly formations of competing Comanche citationalities, in which the same dated literature serves as an unmatched model and inspiration for “new” work that rehashes old anti-Indigenous ideology.
2022, Dustin Tahmahkera, Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands, page 16
Origin
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“citationality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/citationality. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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