readerly

English

Etymology

reader +‎ -ly

Adjective

readerly (comparative more readerly, superlative most readerly)

1. Characteristic of readers.
   • 2009 July 19, Carlo Rotella, “The Genre Artist”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     It+was+an+extraordinary+display+of+true+readerly+love+—+a+bunch+of+buffs+giving+a+contemporary+genre+writer+the+Shakespearean+variorum+treatment+on+their+own+time.