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metafictionists

metafictionists is the plural of metafictionist.

Meaning of metafictionist

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

Questions about metafictionists

What is metafictionists the plural of?
Metafictionists is the plural of metafictionist.

Words near metafictionists in the dictionary

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

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