"fictionality" meaning in English

See fictionality in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: fictionalities [plural]
Etymology: From fictional + -ity. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fictional|ity}} fictional + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fictionality (countable and uncountable, plural fictionalities)
  1. State or quality of being fictional. Tags: countable, uncountable

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fictional",
        "3": "ity"
      },
      "expansion": "fictional + -ity",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From fictional + -ity.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fictionalities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "fictionality (countable and uncountable, plural fictionalities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ity",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "State or quality of being fictional."
      ],
      "id": "en-fictionality-en-noun-ZeDjVrb3",
      "links": [
        [
          "fictional",
          "fictional"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fictionality"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fictional",
        "3": "ity"
      },
      "expansion": "fictional + -ity",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From fictional + -ity.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fictionalities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "fictionality (countable and uncountable, plural fictionalities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ity",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "State or quality of being fictional."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fictional",
          "fictional"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fictionality"
}

Download raw JSONL data for fictionality meaning in English (2.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (0c0c1f1 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.