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metafictional

adj

Etymology

From meta- + fictional.

  1. derived from fictiō
  2. derived from ficcion
  3. inherited from ficcioun
  4. suffixed as fictional — “fiction + -al”
  5. prefixed as metafictional — “meta + fictional”

Definitions

  1. Of, 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”).

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