readerly

English

Etymology

From 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.
  2. Of or relating to the reader.
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xiii:
      Nevertheless, the dream element and over power to haunt come at a certain readerly price. The poem abounds in passages that will leave an unprepared audience bewildered.
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