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antinovelist

antinovelist noun: a writer of antinovels.

Noun

antinovelist (plural antinovelists)

  1. A writer of antinovels.
    • The difference between a modern novelist like Roth and an eighteenth-century moralist and antinovelist like Rousseau […]1995, Dennis Porter, Rousseau's legacy: emergence and eclipse of the writer in France
    • But for Augustine, as for the harsher Puritans who followed him, there is no real point in saying what some humanist antinovelists very much wished to say […]1997, Margaret Anne Doody, The True Story of the Novel

Forms of antinovelist

pluralantinovelists

Origin of antinovelist

From antinovel + -ist or anti- + novelist.

Questions about antinovelist

What does antinovelist mean?
Antinovelist means a writer of antinovels.
What part of speech is antinovelist?
Antinovelist is a noun.
What is the plural of antinovelist?
The plural of antinovelist is antinovelists.

Words near antinovelist in the dictionary

  1. antinormative
  2. antinormativity
  3. Antinous
  4. Antinouses
  5. antinovel
  6. antinovelist
  7. antinovelistic
  8. antinovelists
  9. antinovels
  10. antinuclear
  11. antinuclearism

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