Meanings
noundefictionalization (countable and uncountable, plural defictionalizations)
plural defictionalizations
- countableuncountableThe process of defictionalizing.
Musil is committed to the dissolution of the ego and to the defictionalization and depersonalization of character as Woolf expresses it in “The Narrow Bridge of Art.”
1983, William Thomas Hobdell Jackson, George Stade, Jacques Barzun, European Writers, New York: Scribner - countableuncountableSomething defictionalized.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*de
- Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
- Proto-Italic*dē
- Latindē
- Latindē-
- Englishde-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeyǵʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰinéǵʰti
- Proto-Italic*θingō
- Proto-Italic*fingō
- Latinfingō
- Latinfictiō
- Old Frenchficcion
- Middle Englishficcioun
- Englishfiction
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishfictional
- Englishfictionalize
- Englishfictionalization
- Englishdefictionalization
From de- + fictionalization.
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APA
defictionalization. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/defictionalization
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“defictionalization.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/defictionalization. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “defictionalization,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/defictionalization.
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