novelish

comparative more novelish · superlative most novelish

1. Resembling or characteristic of a novel.

   Two such books dawned in me when I first saw our post-encephalitic patients: Compulsion and Constraint (a study of subcortical disorders and mechanisms) and People of the Abyss (a novelish, Jack Londonish book).

   1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

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   Yet he managed to throw over the most unlikely material a novelish or at least a romantic character, which is sometimes — nay, very often — utterly wanting in professed and admitted masters of the business[…]

   1919, George Saintsbury, A history of the French novel: to the close of the 19th century: Volume 2

   Synonyms: novelesque, novellike