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narrativist

narrativist adjective: based on or using a narrative.

Adjective

narrativist (comparative more narrativist, superlative most narrativist)

  1. Based on or using a narrative.
    • How did the narrativist orthodoxy arise? I suspect that it is because those who write about it and treat it as a universal truth about the human condition tend, like Bruner, to be profoundly narrative types themselves.2004 January 10, Galen Strawson, “Review: Making Stories by Jerome Bruner”, in The Guardian
    • Put provocatively, one can both uphold a covering law model as far as the analysis of particular explanations is concerned, and still use a narrativist approach for the holistic analysis of historiographic texts.2011, Aviezer Tucker, editor, A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN

Forms of narrativist

comparativemore narrativist
superlativemost narrativist

Origin of narrativist

From narrative + -ist.

Questions about narrativist

What does narrativist mean?
Narrativist means based on or using a narrative.
What part of speech is narrativist?
Narrativist is an adjective.

Words near narrativist in the dictionary

  1. narratives
  2. narrativise
  3. narrativised
  4. narrativises
  5. narrativising
  6. narrativist
  7. narrativistic
  8. narrativity
  9. narrativization
  10. narrativizations
  11. narrativize

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