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metafictions

metafictions is the plural of metafiction.

Meaning of metafiction

Noun

metafiction (usually uncountable, plural metafictions)

  1. (usually) A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
    • Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton may be described as accomplished examples of historiographic metafiction, the kind of self-conscious, heavily parodic and experimental historical […]1999, Susana Onega Jaén, Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd, Camden House, →ISBN, page 1

Questions about metafictions

What is metafictions the plural of?
Metafictions is the plural of metafiction.

Words near metafictions in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metafictions (page history and authors); metafiction (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.

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