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non-mimetic fiction

non-mimetic fiction noun: fiction not based on reality; fiction set in a fictional fantasy world that does not exist.

Noun

non-mimetic fiction (uncountable)

  1. Fiction not based on reality; fiction set in a fictional fantasy world that does not exist.
    • In the nineteenth century, the sustained metaphors of sf—non-mimetic fiction—were reconceived with the aid of science, the same science that Arthur Miller quails before today.1976, Alexei Panshin, Cory Panshin, “The World Beyond the Hill”, in SF in Dimension: A Book of Explorations, →ISBN, page 50
    • Instead of requiring to be persuaded that the heterocosmic construction is as perfect a simulacrum of the primary world as can reasonably be contrived, the readers of non-mimetic fiction require to be persuaded that world within a text is plausible and interesting in spite of its marked differences...2007, Brian Stableford, Heterocosms, →ISBN, page 195

Synonyms of non-mimetic fiction

Antonyms

  • mimetic fiction

Questions about non-mimetic fiction

What does non-mimetic fiction mean?
Non-mimetic fiction means fiction not based on reality; fiction set in a fictional fantasy world that does not exist.
What part of speech is non-mimetic fiction?
Non-mimetic fiction is a noun.

Words near non-mimetic fiction in the dictionary

  1. non-migratory
  2. non-military
  3. non-military service
  4. non-mimated
  5. non-mimetic
  6. non-mimetic fiction
  7. non-minimal
  8. non-minimally
  9. non-minor
  10. non-miserly
  11. non-mnemonic

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