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explanatory fictions

explanatory fictions is the plural of explanatory fiction.

Meaning of explanatory fiction

Noun

explanatory fiction (countable and uncountable, plural explanatory fictions)

  1. A work of fiction that attempts to explain the causes of a real event.

Questions about explanatory fictions

What is explanatory fictions the plural of?
Explanatory fictions is the plural of explanatory fiction.

Words near explanatory fictions in the dictionary

  1. explanators
  2. explanatory
  3. explanatory dictionaries
  4. explanatory dictionary
  5. explanatory fiction
  6. explanatory fictions
  7. explanatory style
  8. explanatory styles
  9. explane
  10. explaned
  11. explanes

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