lethetic

comparative more lethetic · superlative most lethetic

1. Failing to mirror reality, purely escapist or nonsensical.

   These lethetic fictions cut their ties to the real world, refusing to be mirrors of life.

   1984, Fantasy Review - Issues 64-74

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   If the structure of language is accepted as mirroring the world, the trope ceases to be a lethetic figure

   1985, the New Orleans Review - Volume 12

   Lethetic reading, on the other hand, could be liberating and indeed is liberating for some of Kafka's characters and for Kafka himself some of the time

   1989, Clayton Koelb, Kafka's rhetoric: the passion of reading

   Synonyms: unrealistic, escapist, fantastic