Usually means: Engaging with text through reading.
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  1. readerly: Merriam-Webster
  2. readerly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. readerly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. readerly: Wordnik
  5. readerly: Wiktionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Readerly: Neuage Online Discourse Analysis Theory

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Definitions from Wiktionary (readerly)

▸ adjective:  Characteristic of readers.

Similar:
bookish, booksellerish, textbookish, scholarly, browsy, writerish, booksy, librarianly, librarianlike, schoolbookish, more...

Opposite:
writerly, unreaderly, non-readerly

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Similar:
bookish, booksellerish, textbookish, scholarly, browsy, writerish, booksy, librarianly, librarianlike, schoolbookish, more...

Opposite:
writerly, unreaderly, non-readerly



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