metanarrative

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A narrative which concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge and offers legitimation of such through the anticipated completion of some master idea; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.

Translations

 * Catalan: metanarrativa, consciència popular, realitat col·lectiva
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 宏大敘事
 * French: métarécit,
 * German: meistererzählung, metanarrativ
 * Italian: metanarrazione
 * Portuguese: metanarrativa
 * Spanish: metanarrativa, metarrelato, macrorrelato, grandes narrativas, grandes relatos
 * Vietnamese: siêu tự sự, đại tự sự