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Etymology

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super- +‎ cultural

Adjective

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supercultural (not comparable)

  1. Transcending cultures; common across several or all cultures.
    • 1996, Anna Zeidler, Epistemology and History, page 545:
      To sum up: I think that cultural relativism is the position according to which there is no supercultural perspective, no supercultural conceptual scheme, or at least they are not attainable []
    • 2011, Neal R. Norrick, How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs, page 58:
      Ben-Amos (1969) argues that folklorists have consistently confounded supercultural with ethnographic genres, and that they have been troubled by the discrepancies between the two.