metacondition

English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ condition.

Noun

metacondition (plural metaconditions)

1. A condition dependent on other conditions.
   • 2003, Raymond Hickey, Motives for Language Change, page 104:

     The phenomenon cannot be described, she pointed out, by talking about individual changes in transformational rules or whatnot: Rather, it must be described as a metacondition on the way the grammar of a language as a whole will change.

Related terms

• metaconditional

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• octantimonide