Usually means: References or echoes other texts.
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  1. intertextual: Merriam-Webster
  2. intertextual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intertextual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intertextual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intertextual: Wordnik
  6. intertextual: Wiktionary
  7. intertextual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. intertextual: Dictionary.com
  9. Intertextual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. intertextual: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Pertaining to intertextuality; being or involving the reference to one text in another.

Similar:
interreferential, peritextual, countertextual, metatextual, hypertextual, textual, interconnectional, intercommunicative, iconotextual, architextual, more...

Opposite:
intratextual, self-contained, self-referential

Types:
allusion, reference, citation, quotation, paraphrase, echoes, more...

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Similar:
interreferential, peritextual, countertextual, metatextual, hypertextual, textual, interconnectional, intercommunicative, iconotextual, architextual, more...

Opposite:
intratextual, self-contained, self-referential

Types:
allusion, reference, citation, quotation, paraphrase, echoes, more...



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