textual matter

Questions about textual matter

What does textual matter mean?

textual matter means "the words of something written".

What is another word for textual matter?

Close synonyms include text. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is textual matter a common word?

textual matter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.