transmotivation

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English

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Etymology

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trans- +‎ motivation, coined by the scholar Gérard Genette.

Noun

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transmotivation (countable and uncountable, plural transmotivations)

  1. (literature) The process of revising a fictional character's motivations to correspond to his/her actions.