Fictionalization
//ˌfɪk.ʃən.əl.əˈzeɪ.ʃən// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of fictionalizing. countable, uncountable
"Remembering is an act of re-creation and therefore subject to distortion and fictionalization: 'real' memories become tales, and tales become 'memories'."
- 2 writing in a fictional form wordnet
- 3 Something fictionalized. countable, uncountable
"Near-synonym: faction"
- 4 a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction wordnet
Example
More examples"Remembering is an act of re-creation and therefore subject to distortion and fictionalization: 'real' memories become tales, and tales become 'memories'."
Etymology
From fictionalize + -ation.
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