fictionality
fictionality noun: state or quality of being fictional.
Noun
fictionality (countable and uncountable, plural fictionalities)
- State or quality of being fictional.
- To be sure the anticipatory proleptics of the "historical survey in future-form" associated with pseudonymity rests upon the literary fiction of the pre-historicality of the revelation of these secrets; but this fictionality is intended to emphasize precisely by means of its esoteric quality that...1979, Erhardt Güttgemanns, Candid Questions Concerning Gospel Form Criticism, page 132
- But, of course, characters in postmodernist narrative fictions, too, can become aware of their own fictionality—characters such as Julia the policeman's wife, or the magazine-reader in Burroughs' Exterminator!, or the fictional author in Barth's "Life-Story."1987, Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction
Forms of fictionality
| plural | fictionalities |
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Origin of fictionality
From fictional + -ity.
Questions about fictionality
- What does fictionality mean?
- Fictionality means state or quality of being fictional.
- What part of speech is fictionality?
- Fictionality is a noun.
- What is the plural of fictionality?
- The plural of fictionality is fictionalities.
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