intertextual
adjective
intertextual is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to intertextuality; being or involving the reference to one text in another” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-E-R-T-E-X-T-U-A-L, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does intertextual mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to intertextuality; being or involving the reference to one text in another.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of intertextual
- more intertextual comparative
- most intertextual superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is intertextual?
Intertextual appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does intertextual come from?
From inter- + textual.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).