metaquotidian

English

Etymology

Blend of metaphysical +‎ quotidian or meta- +‎ quotidian

Adjective

metaquotidian (comparative more metaquotidian, superlative most metaquotidian)

1. Arising from and transcending everyday objects or practices; pertaining to the deeper meaning to be found in the ordinary.
   • 1991, Notatnik teatralny - Volumes 1-4, page 221:

     The theatre of a spiritual gesture — in memory of Helmut Kajzar — an exposition of a personal concept of acting; a history of co-operation with Kajzar; ..allowing myself to make so drastic confessions that I intended to be a metaphysical actor ... means that I've confirmed my organic relationship with the metaquotidian theatre".

   • 1997, Charles Wright, Black Zodiac:

     We live in the wind-chill, The what-if and what-was-not, The blown and sour dust of just after or just before, The metaquotidian landscape of soft edge and abyss.

   • 2009, Robert D. Denham, The Early Poetry of Charles Wright: A Companion, 1960-1990, →ISBN, page 65:

     But in every instance the commonplace thing is transformed by metaphor, the figure that moves the object toward the metaquotidian.

   • 2015, DC Turner, “Made Things”, in The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the US South:

     What appears to be second nature is made strange, as his cartographies of Locust Avenue and its environs turn the suburban “countryside” into a zone of dematerialized space, a metaquotidian map.