Relating to or characteristic of essays or essayists; having the style or method of an essay.
From essayistic + -al (Latin suffix meaning 'of or relating to'). This is an extended form of essayistic, doubling the suffixes to emphasize the essay-like quality.
Medieval scholars loved piling up suffixes like -istic and -al together; we barely use this anymore because essayistic already does the job—language naturally prunes redundancy!
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