supercultural
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]supercultural (not comparable)
- Transcending cultures; common across several or all cultures.
- 1996, Anna Zeidler, Epistemology and History, page 545:
- 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 […]
- 2011, Neal R. Norrick, How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs, page 58:
- 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.