[1650–60; referent + -ial]This word is first recorded in the period 1650–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: agency, gas, parameter, profile, triplet
Examples of 'referential' in a sentence
referential
Your box is the most solipsistic, self-referential medium.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Call us a bunch of self-referential, mocking, postmodern deconstructionist ironicists, if you will.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
His heirs are entirely self-referential, mistrusting of craft.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This can be both self-referential and self-reverential.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
The problem with those changes is sort of self-referential.
Globe and Mail (2003)
She suggests that she makes 'self-referential, some would say self-obsessed, performance art'.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Or a puzzle box loaded with subliminal nudges and self-referential winks.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This is revenge theatre that is an exercise in self-referential, stage-centric, obsessive navel-gazing.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
These statements presume referential equivalence between 'truth' and 'lies'.