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fictionalisation

fictionalisation is the alternative spelling of fictionalization.

Meaning of fictionalization

Noun

fictionalization (countable and uncountable, plural fictionalizations)

  1. The act of fictionalizing.
    • Remembering is an act of re-creation and therefore subject to distortion and fictionalization: 'real' memories become tales, and tales become 'memories'.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 204
  2. Something fictionalized.
    • Near-synonym: faction
    Synonyms:
    faction

Forms of fictionalisation

pluralfictionalisations

Origin of fictionalisation

From fictional + -isation.

Questions about fictionalisation

What is fictionalisation the alternative spelling of?
Fictionalisation is the alternative spelling of fictionalization.

Words near fictionalisation in the dictionary

  1. fiction
  2. fictional
  3. fictional documentaries
  4. fictional documentary
  5. fictional other
  6. fictionalisation
  7. fictionalisations
  8. fictionalise
  9. fictionalised
  10. fictionaliser
  11. fictionalisers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fictionalisation (page history and authors); fictionalization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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