fictionish

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adjective

Similar to fiction.

Similar
Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivefictionish (comparative more fictionish, superlative most fictionish)

comparative more fictionish · superlative most fictionish

  1. informalrareSimilar to fiction.

    ... mat of a fictionish discursive flow with eighteen black and white reproductions of ...

    2005, India International Centre, India International Centre Quarterly
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    The only fictionish thing about it is his having written it in the first person as he tells the reader plainly. Personally, I own I never heard of Gerald O'Connor before. But that's because I always turned a deaf ear to all the[…]

    1908, Maria Price La Touche, The Letters of a Noble Woman (Mrs. La Touche of Harristown), page 188

    In an industry where it is hard to tell fact from fiction anymore, one writer said bookstores might as well label genre sections “Fictionish,” “Memoirish,” and “Cartoonish.” When. Changing. Genres. Means. Changing. Forms.

    2011 November 1, Laura Oliver, M.F.A., The Story Within: New Insights and Inspiration for Writers, Penguin, →ISBN

    Synonyms: fictiony

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveSimilar to fiction.

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeyǵʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰinéǵʰti
  3. Proto-Italic*θingō
  4. Proto-Italic*fingō
  5. Latinfingō
  6. Latinfictiō
  7. Old Frenchficcion
  8. Middle Englishficcioun
  9. Englishfiction
  10. Englishfictionish

From fiction + -ish.

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Chicago

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