fictiveness

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Etymology[edit]

fictive +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

fictiveness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being fictive.
    • 2009 February 1, Charles Mcgrath, “John Updike’s Mighty Pen”, in New York Times[1]:
      Though he loved Jorge Luis Borges, he didn’t in his own work go in for Borgesian mirror games, and he was free from the postmodern anxiety about the fictiveness of fiction, the unreliability of language.

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