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bookception

bookception noun: a work of fiction (especially a novel) featuring a frame story or metanarrative structure.

Noun

bookception (plural bookceptions)

  1. (slang) A work of fiction (especially a novel) featuring a frame story or metanarrative structure.
    • “The Words” offers too many “stories,” and this “bookception” fails to offer a seamless serious drama.2012 September 13, Nathan Fisher, “Lazy writing leads to forgettable 'Words'”, in The Pioneer, Whitman College, page 4
    • This wishy-washy literary thriller is masquerading as a “book-ception” of sorts, with incessant narration and a heavy-handed score just as cliched as its plot.2012 September 20, Rob Marvin, “Unimaginative plot wastes talented cast on dull, plodding story”, in The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, page 15

Forms of bookception

pluralbookceptions
alternative formbook-ception

Origin of bookception

From book + -ception.

Questions about bookception

What does bookception mean?
Bookception means a work of fiction (especially a novel) featuring a frame story or metanarrative structure.
What part of speech is bookception?
Bookception is a noun.
What is the plural of bookception?
The plural of bookception is bookceptions.

Words near bookception in the dictionary

  1. bookcard
  2. bookcards
  3. bookcase
  4. bookcased
  5. bookcases
  6. bookception
  7. bookceptions
  8. bookchest
  9. bookchests
  10. Bookchin
  11. Bookchinian

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