citationality

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noun

A measure of the relative number of citations in a work.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nouncitationality (countable and uncountable, plural citationalities)

plural citationalities

  1. countableuncountableA measure of the relative number of citations in a work.
  2. 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 230
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    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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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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