How to pronounce“metanarrative”in English
IPA/mɛtænærrætæɪv/
Syllablesme·ta·nar·ra·tive
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Definitions of “metanarrative”
noun
A narrative which concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge and offers legitimation of such through the anticipated completion of some master idea; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.
“The narratives are important in themselves as significant pieces of the metanarrative of suspicion in which activist politics have been embedded since the McCarthy era (with roots much earlier).”
Synonyms:grand narrative
adjective
Of or relating to a metanarrative.