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intimatopic

intimatopic adjective: of or relating to intimatopia.

Adjective

intimatopic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to intimatopia.
    • Across all intimatopic literature, sex is almost always embedded in a plot, rather than included simply for its own sake.2006, Elizabeth Woledge, "Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream", chapter 3 (pages 97–114) in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, editors (2006), Fan fiction and fan...
    • The transition from one stage of the relationship to the other is less smooth and less fluid and, unlike intimatopic love, the romantic love is not a mere culmination of a close and complex relationship.2007, Helena Štěpánová (2007), Slash fan fiction and the canon(PDF), BA thesis, Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (retrieved 2017-11-30; from the...

Origin of intimatopic

From intimatopia + -ic; originally coined by literary scholar Elizabeth Woledge in her essay "Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream" (2006), together with the parent term intimatopia, to describe the setting in a certain subset of slash fiction.

Questions about intimatopic

What does intimatopic mean?
Intimatopic means of or relating to intimatopia.
What part of speech is intimatopic?
Intimatopic is an adjective.

Words near intimatopic in the dictionary

  1. intimating
  2. intimation
  3. intimations
  4. intimatopia
  5. intimatopias
  6. intimatopic
  7. intimator
  8. intimators
  9. intime
  10. intimidate
  11. intimidated

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