See fictionality on Wiktionary
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"English terms suffixed with -ity",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with etymology trees",
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"ref": "1979, Erhardt Güttgemanns, Candid Questions Concerning Gospel Form Criticism, page 132:",
"text": "To be sure the anticipatory proleptics of the \"historical survey in future-form\" associated with pseudonymity rests upon the literary fiction of the pre-historicality of the revelation of these secrets; but this fictionality is intended to emphasize precisely by means of its esoteric quality that God will allow the elect righteous (cf. I Enoch 1:1) and wise persons (cf. I Enoch 100:6, 104:12) of the present day to participate already in his revelation that has proceeded from the mouths of the righteous and wise ones of pre-history, through the \"literary\" medium of the book.",
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"ref": "1987, Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction:",
"text": "But, of course, characters in postmodernist narrative fictions, too, can become aware of their own fictionality—characters such as Julia the policeman's wife, or the magazine-reader in Burroughs' Exterminator!, or the fictional author in Barth's \"Life-Story.\"",
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"ref": "1996, Katherine Kearns, Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism: Through the Looking Glass, page 257:",
"text": "As I discuss later, as well, authors within the realistic mode often encode their texts with markers of not only a self-conscious fictionality but also an irony regarding their projects that is, I would maintain, meant to be discovered.",
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"glosses": [
"State or quality of being fictional."
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"word": "fictionality"
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