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单词 novelese
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novelesen.

Brit. /ˌnɒvəˈliːz/, /ˌnɒvlˈiːz/, U.S. /ˌnɑvəˈliz/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: novel n., -ese suffix.
Etymology: < novel n. + -ese suffix, after e.g. journalese n.
The style of writing supposedly characteristic of inferior novels.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > in particular literary contexts
pamphletism1716
newspaper English1856
journalese1882
officialese1884
novelese1900
headlinese1916
bureaucratese1942
1900 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Jan. 3 The English is novelese, when it does not degenerate into sheer bad grammar.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Mar. 173/4 The book never loses what might be called the ‘novelese of imminence’, from the first sentence to the end; the first-person narrator is dog-eared with clichés of ‘perception’ and of ‘sensibility’.
1975 Country Life 27 Feb. 519/1 The vulgar novel-ese of some of today's semi-literate mountain spirits.
2001 Newsday (Nexis) 2 Sept. b14 Somehow the author got his diplomas without learning how to write anything but C-grade novelese.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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