readerly

Adjective

1. Characteristic of readers.
   • It+was+an+extraordinary+display+of+true+readerly+love+—+a+bunch+of+buffs+giving+a+contemporary+genre+writer+the+Shakespearean+variorum+treatment+on+their+own+time. - 2009 July 19, Carlo Rotella, “The Genre Artist”, in...
2. Of or relating to the reader.
   • Nevertheless, the dream element and over power to haunt come at a certain readerly price. The poem abounds in passages that will leave an unprepared audience bewildered. - 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in...