fictiony
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Adjective[edit]
fictiony (comparative more fictiony, superlative most fictiony)
- (informal, rare) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fiction.
- 1927, The Editor: The Journal of Information for Literary Workers:
- The taint of being 'fictiony' is, above all, to be avoided." *** Harper & Brothers, 49 East 33rd Street, New York, N. Y., and […]
- 1969, New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art:
- Gabriel Tolliver is "fictiony," and too much sweetening is sprinkled into the tale […]
- 2021, Carla Nappi, Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5:
- ... scales in each chapter will help you navigate between the bits you can cite when writing your own histories, and the fictiony sparkles enlivening those bits. The fictiony sparkles are happening in the time of the room in which the […]