extraliterary

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adjective

Outside literature.

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Meanings

adjectiveextraliterary (comparative more extraliterary, superlative most extraliterary)

comparative more extraliterary · superlative most extraliterary

  1. Outside literature.

    For all the obvious extraliterary reasons, “This Is Water” is often an extremely painful reading experience, and in this opinion I cannot imagine I will be alone.

    2009 April 26, Tom Bissell, “Great and Terrible Truths”, in New York Times

Origin

From extra- + literary.

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APA

extraliterary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extraliterary

MLA

“extraliterary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extraliterary. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extraliterary,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extraliterary.

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