Word.ws English Dictionary

heterodiegetic

heterodiegetic adjective: of or relating to a narrator that does not take part in the plot.

Adjective

heterodiegetic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a narrator that does not take part in the plot.

Antonyms of heterodiegetic

Origin of heterodiegetic

From hetero- + diegetic.

Questions about heterodiegetic

What does heterodiegetic mean?
Heterodiegetic means of or relating to a narrator that does not take part in the plot.
What part of speech is heterodiegetic?
Heterodiegetic is an adjective.

Words near heterodiegetic in the dictionary

  1. heteroderids
  2. heterodetic
  3. heterodiasporic
  4. heterodichogamous
  5. heterodichogamy
  6. heterodiegetic
  7. heterodifunctional
  8. heterodifunctionalized
  9. heterodimensional
  10. heterodimer
  11. heterodimeric

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: heterodiegetic (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “heterodiegetic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/heterodiegetic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.