subject matter

Definitions

The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The appearance of the book is as unattractive as its subject-matter. It has been reproduced from typescript by photolithography, as many theses are in these days of expensive printing; but the copy⟳ photographed has been carelessly typed on a machine with a defective spacing-mechanism and a number⟳ of damaged characters; to make⟳ matters worse, the typist has failed to keep⟳ the type⟳ clean⟳.”

“When it was released in 2005, Brokeback Mountain entered the collective consciousness in a way that is vanishingly rare for a film with queer subject matter⟳.”

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