fictionalityn.

1883 N.Z. Herald 3 Mar. Suppl. 1/5 A fictionality stuck on the gate-posts of a small cottage in one of the flattest parts of Auckland, on the top of a hill, which set forth..that that identical spot was ‘Glen May’; albeit both glens and may were conspicuously absent.

1929 Psyche July 35 Levels of communication depend to a very great extent on the degree of fictionality employed.

1933 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. Sept. 102/1 Bentham somewhat averts his face from this predicament of fictionality by adding that political reasoning rests on no greater fiction than does the mathematics of probability.

1950 Kenyon Rev. Winter 163 Expression, exploitation of medium, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are said to mark the distinction between poetry and non-poetry.

1982 J. Culler On Deconstruction (1983) ii. 181 Relegating problems of fictionality, rhetoricity, and nonseriousness to a marginal and dependent realm..philosophy produces a purified language which it can hope to describe by rules that literature would disrupt if it had not been set aside.

1994 R. Ronen Possible Worlds Lit. Theory Introd. 1 Fictionality is a distinctive property of literary texts and as such it forms a natural topic for literary research.

2017 Financial Times 22 Apr. 11 At times the sheer fictionality overwhelms. Greg appears to be a particularly broadly drawn Dickens character rather than an actual human being.