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Meaning of xenoencyclopedia | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
/zɛnəɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/

Definitions

An encyclopedia of science fiction.

rare

Examples

“The competent reader gradually learns more and more about the genre's own grand-scale xenoencyclopedia in order to understand each new work's specific xenoencyclopedia...”
“The (xeno)encyclopedia of the (science fiction) reader In L'empire du pseudo, Richard Saint-Gelais applies Umberto Eco's textual cooperation theory to the science fiction genre. He proposes to call “xenoencyclopedia” all the cognitive ...”
“They offer a supplement—or possibly a starting point—to the reader's “personal encyclopedia” (Eco 1985 [1979]) or, in this case, “xeno-encyclopedia” (Saint-Gelais 1999), which was constituted through previous Marvel readings and which these publications help to configure according to the publisher's...”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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