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non-diegetic

non-diegetic is the alternative form of nondiegetic.

Meaning of nondiegetic

Adjective

nondiegetic (not comparable)

  1. Not existing within a fictional universe, rather existing in the background, and unable to be perceived by the characters.
    • “Just ignore it. It's nondiegetic.”2013 April 4, Adam Reed, “Sea Tunt: Part I” (11:21 from the start), in Archer, season 4, episode 12, spoken by Cheryl Tunt (Judy Greer)

Questions about non-diegetic

What is non-diegetic the alternative form of?
Non-diegetic is the alternative form of nondiegetic.

Words near non-diegetic in the dictionary

  1. non-determinisms
  2. non-deterministic
  3. non-diabetic
  4. non-diagnostic
  5. non-dialectal
  6. non-diegetic
  7. non-difference
  8. non-digital
  9. non-digital native
  10. non-dimensional
  11. non-dimensionally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-diegetic (page history and authors); nondiegetic (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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