Meanings
- not comparableTranscending cultures; common across several or all cultures.
Ben-Amos (1969) argues that folklorists have consistently confounded supercultural with ethnographic genres, and that they have been troubled by the discrepancies between the two.
2011, Neal R. Norrick, How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs, page 581 more example
To sum up: I think that cultural relativism is the position according to which there is no supercultural perspective, no supercultural conceptual scheme, or at least they are not attainable […]
1996, Anna Zeidler, Epistemology and History, page 545
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Italic*super
- Latinsuper
- Latinsuper-
- Englishsuper-
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷélh₁eti
- Proto-Italic*kʷelō
- Latincolō
- Latincultūra
- Middle Frenchculture
- Englishculture
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishcultural
- Englishsupercultural
Cite this entry
supercultural. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supercultural
“supercultural.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supercultural. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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