Defictionalization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process of defictionalizing. countable, uncountable

    "Musil is committed to the dissolution of the ego and to the defictionalization and depersonalization of character as Woolf expresses it in “The Narrow Bridge of Art.”"

  2. 2
    Something defictionalized. countable, uncountable

Example

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"Musil is committed to the dissolution of the ego and to the defictionalization and depersonalization of character as Woolf expresses it in “The Narrow Bridge of Art.”"

Etymology

From de- + fictionalization.

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