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narrativistic

adj

Etymology

From narrative + -istic.

  1. derived from narrātīvus
  2. derived from narratif
  3. borrowed from narrative
  4. formed as narrativistic — “narrative + -istic”

Definitions

  1. Relating to a narrative.

    • Because they are fixed, anticipated and therefore deliberately planned on both sides, they allow an unusual degree of premeditation to actors who can bring to these well-designed narrativistic strategies.
    • But the “draw story” and the chant are both narrativistic tactics, and they actually do little more than set the scene and introduce the characters.
    • If narrativistic explanations are to be intelligible, they must provide causal explanations (see chapter 2), and making good on causal claims may require appealing, if tacitly, to laws that explain the interactions identified.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA