fictiony

comparative more fictiony · superlative most fictiony

1. informalrareOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of fiction.

   Gabriel Tolliver is "fictiony," and too much sweetening is sprinkled into the tale […]

   1969, New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art

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   The taint of being 'fictiony' is, above all, to be avoided." *** Harper & Brothers, 49 East 33rd Street, New York, N. Y., and[…]

   1927, The Editor: The Journal of Information for Literary Workers

   ... scales in each chapter will help you navigate between the bits you can cite when writing your own histories, and the fictiony sparkles enlivening those bits. The fictiony sparkles are happening in the time of the room in which the[…]

   2021, Carla Nappi, Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5

   Synonyms: fictionish