Meanings
adjectivemetafictional (not comparable)
- not comparableOf, relating to, or being metafiction.
Full of sly jokes, riddles and metafictional high-jinks, his work had the voltage of a thriller (offering a rare voice of disapproval, the New Yorker critic James Wood accused his works of pedalling a “B-movie atmosphere”).
2024 May 1, Lisa Allardice, “Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*me
- Proto-Indo-European*meth₂?
- Ancient Greekμετᾰ́ (metắ)
- Ancient Greekμετᾰ- (metă-)
- Englishmeta-
- 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
- Englishmetafictional
Translations
Catalan metaficcional
- metaficcionalof, relating to, or being metafiction
German metafiktional
- metafiktionalof, relating to, or being metafiction
Greek μεταμυθοπλαστικός
- μεταμυθοπλαστικός (metamythoplastikós)of, relating to, or being metafiction
Romanian metaficțional
- metaficționalof, relating to, or being metafiction
Cite this entry
APA
metafictional. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metafictional
MLA
“metafictional.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metafictional. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metafictional,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metafictional.
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