Fictiveness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being fictive. uncountable

    "Though he loved Jorge Luis Borges, he didn’t in his own work go in for Borgesian mirror games, and he was free from the postmodern anxiety about the fictiveness of fiction, the unreliability of language."

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"Though he loved Jorge Luis Borges, he didn’t in his own work go in for Borgesian mirror games, and he was free from the postmodern anxiety about the fictiveness of fiction, the unreliability of language."

Etymology

From fictive + -ness.

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