fictionaladj.
/ˈfɪkʃn̩(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈfɪkʃ(ə)nəl/ Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of fiction.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adjective]
madea1387
feigned1623
fictious1641
fictitious1773
literary1842
fictional1843
1843 F. E. Paget Warden of Berkingholt 97 Poisoning the springs of fictional literature.
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 63 754 There is a fearful dearth of invention just now, especially in the fictional department.
1865 Sat. Rev. 19 Aug. 227/1 He is..the outcome of these fine fictional theories.
1869 E. Arber in Monk of Evesham Introd. 8 The confusion in construction..tends to prove the fictional character of the work.
Derivatives
ˌfictionaliˈzation n.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story
fablec1300
fantasy1362
feigning1388
invention?a1513
story?1531
finctionc1540
figment1577
fingure1593
fiction1599
knavigation1613
flam1632
gun1720
novel1764
fabrication1790
fudge1797
gag1805
myth1840
make-up1844
concoction1885
fictionalization1954
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > a work of fiction
fablea1340
fiction1875
fictionalization1954
1954 Publishers' Weekly 16 Jan. 248 A fictionalization of the early years of Lucrezia Borgia's life.
1960 Spectator 25 Nov. 862 An interesting case of this sort of fictionalisation.
ˈfictionalize v. (transitive) = fictionize v.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > invent, concoct [verb (transitive)] > turn into fiction
to make upc1650
fictionize1831
fictionalize1925
fiction1961
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > relate or represent in fiction [verb (transitive)] > turn into fiction
fictionize1831
fictionalize1925
fiction1961
1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. iii. xvii. 213 Russell, the illegitimate son of Esta..most reservedly fictionalized by his grandparents as an orphan whom they had adopted.
1965 N. E. Eliason in Bessinger & Creed Medieval & Linguistic Stud. 133 This is briefly recounted in..much later works, both English and Scandinavian, where it is greatly expanded and fictionalized.
ˈfictionalized adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adjective] > turned into fiction
fictionalized1947
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adjective] > fictionalized
romancé1938
fictionalized1947
1947 W. Ley Rockets & Space Trav. (1948) 105 It was a novel with the title Outside of the Earth, a fictionalized account of a journey away from the earth.
1956 C. Wilson Outsider vi. 164 [Raskolnikov's] reaction to it all is a fictionalized version of Dostoevsky's fee[l]ing about it.
ˈfictionally adv. in a fictional manner; by means of a work of fiction.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adverb]
fictionally1889
1889 J. J. Hissey Tour in Phaeton 34 A somewhat similar old house, in like manner made fictionally historic.
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adj.1843