palimpsestic.

Having successive layers in which earlier traces remain discernible beneath later ones.

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Words that belong together

• a palimpsestic landscape
• palimpsestic memory

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The palimpsestic landscape retained paths from settlements no longer named.

Her palimpsestic memory held the revised account over fragments of the first.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more palimpsestic; superlative most palimpsestic where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.