readerly
English
Etymology
Adjective
readerly (comparative more readerly, superlative most readerly)
- Characteristic of readers.
- 2009 July 19, Carlo Rotella, “The Genre Artist”, in The New York Times Magazine[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 October 2025:
- 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.
- 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.