fictiony
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English fictiony From fiction + -y.
- derived from ficcionbor
Definitions
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fiction.
- The taint of being 'fictiony' is, above all, to be avoided." *** Harper & Brothers, 49 East 33rd Street, New York, N. Y., and[…]
- Gabriel Tolliver is "fictiony," and too much sweetening is sprinkled into the tale […]
- ... scales in each chapter will help you navigate between the bits you can cite when writing your own histories, and the fictiony sparkles enlivening those bits. The fictiony sparkles are happening in the time of the room in which the[…]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fictiony. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA