Usually means: Text about or referencing itself.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (metatext)

▸ noun:  Text that describes or discusses text.

Similar:
architexture, metanarration, text, context, metafiction, subtext, metamessage, eisegete, metareference, target, more...

Opposite:
intertext, subtext, context, paratext

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Similar:
architexture, metanarration, text, context, metafiction, subtext, metamessage, eisegete, metareference, target, more...

Opposite:
intertext, subtext, context, paratext



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