novelisticadj.
/ˌnɒvəˈlɪstɪk/, /ˌnɒvlˈɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌnɑvəˈlɪstɪk/ Of, relating to, or characteristic of a novel; resembling a novel, esp. in style or in the treatment of character and action.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [adjective]
novelish1800
novelistic1835
novelesque1853
1835 Fraser's Mag. 11 596 It..is wrought out with more novelistic skill.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 17 636/1 Any subject, political, literary, artistical, or novelistic.
1881 W. C. Russell Ocean Free-lance III. v. 170 The theatrical, poetical, and novelistic fresh-water mountebank.
1967 A. Boucher Best Amer. Detective Stories 221 Most of her novels..happily blend pure detection with wider novelistic concerns.
1990 Notes & Queries Dec. 492/1 A second category of ‘new ways of seeing Gissing’ is..Sloan's identification of novelistic influences.
Derivatives
noveˈlistically adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [adverb]
novelistically1892
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 May 3/2 The methods by which a more than novelistically beautiful hero escapes.
1981 M. J. Bruccoli Some Sort of Epic Grandeur xxix. 233 The long story is written novelistically, employing the partially involved narrator Fitzgerald had developed in The Great Gatsby.
2000 Daily Tel. 20 May (Arts & Bks. Suppl.) a2/1 The traces left by a life are unreliable in their details for the simple reason that conscious lives have created them, knowingly, whimsically..novelistically.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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