supermetaphor noun4 •An overarching metaphor; a metaphor that encompasses several sub-metaphors.The third chapter focuses on the theme of alcohol, which is a sort of "supermetaphor" of poetic distillation, encompassing all the other metaphors. — 1996 •A metaphor that is particularly widespread or dominant.BCCI suddenly bloomed as a sort of supermetaphor for the INTRODUCTION: THE DEVIL'S PAYMASTER. — 2004 •A metaphor about metaphors. •A grounding fact; a correspondance between the underlying truth and our ideas and constructions based on that truth.In this way he promotes landscape into a supermetaphor, in order to expose a general tendency towards equalization. — 1997 formssupermetaphors
