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fictiveness

fictiveness noun: the quality of being fictive.

Noun

fictiveness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being fictive.
    • Though he loved Jorge Luis Borges, he didn’t in his own work go in for Borgesian mirror games, and he was free from the postmodern anxiety about the fictiveness of fiction, the unreliability of language.2009 February 1, Charles Mcgrath, “John Updike’s Mighty Pen”, in New York Times

Origin of fictiveness

From fictive + -ness.

Questions about fictiveness

What does fictiveness mean?
Fictiveness means the quality of being fictive.
What part of speech is fictiveness?
Fictiveness is a noun.

Words near fictiveness in the dictionary

  1. fictitiously
  2. fictitiousness
  3. fictive
  4. fictive kin
  5. fictively
  6. fictiveness
  7. fictives
  8. fictivity
  9. fictlang
  10. ficto-
  11. fictocritical

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