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metafictionist

metafictionist noun: a writer of metafiction.

Noun

metafictionist (plural metafictionists)

  1. A writer of metafiction.
    • As a maker of such writing, he descends from a long line traceable from Whitman and Melville to the modernists and Mackey’s idol, Baraka, to the metafictionists John Barth and William Gass.2008 February 24, David Hajdu, “Jazz Man”, in New York Times

Forms of metafictionist

pluralmetafictionists

Origin of metafictionist

From metafiction + -ist.

Questions about metafictionist

What does metafictionist mean?
Metafictionist means a writer of metafiction.
What part of speech is metafictionist?
Metafictionist is a noun.
What is the plural of metafictionist?
The plural of metafictionist is metafictionists.

Words near metafictionist in the dictionary

  1. metafics
  2. metafiction
  3. metafictional
  4. metafictionality
  5. metafictionally
  6. metafictionist
  7. metafictionists
  8. metafictions
  9. metafictive
  10. metafile
  11. metafiles

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