narrativistic
narrativistic adjective: relating to a narrative.
Adjective
narrativistic (comparative more narrativistic, superlative most narrativistic)
- Relating to a narrative.
- Because they are fixed, anticipated and therefore deliberately planned on both sides, they allow an unusual degree of premeditation to actors who can bring to these well-designed narrativistic strategies.2007, Julia C. Strauss, Donal B.Cruise O'Brien, editors, Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 73
- But the “draw story” and the chant are both narrativistic tactics, and they actually do little more than set the scene and introduce the characters.2014, David Kellogg, The Great Globe and All Who It Inherit: Narrative and Dialogue in Story-telling with Halliday, Vygotsky, and Shakespeare, Springer, →ISBN, page 125
Forms of narrativistic
| comparative | more narrativistic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most narrativistic |
Origin of narrativistic
From narrative + -istic.
Questions about narrativistic
- What does narrativistic mean?
- Narrativistic means relating to a narrative.
- What part of speech is narrativistic?
- Narrativistic is an adjective.
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