storyscape

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

story +‎ -scape

Noun[edit]

storyscape (plural storyscapes)

  1. A notional landscape made up of stories or narratives.
    • 2020 November 3, Ross Douthat, “2020 Will Not Be Decisive”, in New York Times[1]:
      One factor is the increasingly immersive power of ideological narratives and virtual realities. If you can react to an election loss by retreating immediately into a storyscape where the outcome was a cheat, carried about by means of voter fraud or Russian interference, then the decisiveness of any given outcome will inevitably diminish.