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narrativize

narrativize verb: to turn into a narrative.

Verb

narrativize (third-person singular simple present narrativizes, present participle narrativizing, simple past and past participle narrativized)

  1. To turn into a narrative.
    • […] for to narrate, to narrativize, in fiction or criticism, is also to exercise power.1987, John George Moss, Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature
    • Readers narrativize such texts by resorting to the experiencing frame, overruling the oddity in pronominal usage that makes such texts difficult […]1996, Monika Fludernik, Towards a 'natural' Narratology

Forms of narrativize

third-person singular presentnarrativizes
present participlenarrativizing
past participlenarrativized
pastnarrativized

Origin of narrativize

From narrative + -ize.

Questions about narrativize

What does narrativize mean?
Narrativize means to turn into a narrative.
What part of speech is narrativize?
Narrativize is a verb.
What is the past tense of narrativize?
The past tense of narrativize is narrativized.

Words near narrativize in the dictionary

  1. narrativist
  2. narrativistic
  3. narrativity
  4. narrativization
  5. narrativizations
  6. narrativize
  7. narrativized
  8. narrativizes
  9. narrativizing
  10. narratological
  11. narratologically

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