metaness
nounEtymology From meta (“self-referential”) + -ness or meta- + -ness.
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Informal, Uncommon Self-referentiality and self-awareness, especially of tropes in art and fiction.
- And we know it also because the “metaness” of the communication becomes apparent in the fact that they not only simply play, but play with play.1988, Robert Newsom, A Likely Story: Probability and Play in Fiction, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 186:
- “Metaness” is in the mind of the beholder.2001, Elliotte Rusty Harold, XML Bible, Wiley, →ISBN, page 111: