Unstory

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    a story which lacks the expected characteristics found in a normal story
  2. 2
    a story which is unnoteworthy or unnewsworthy; nonstory

    "This margin between the real and invented is always arbitrary and blurry. But Welty suggests that it will always be here and that the task of literature is to remind us of it. We need the incredible just as we need the opportunities to differentiate between a story and an unstory."

Synonyms

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anti-story

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"This margin between the real and invented is always arbitrary and blurry. But Welty suggests that it will always be here and that the task of literature is to remind us of it. We need the incredible just as we need the opportunities to differentiate between a story and an unstory."

Etymology

From un- + story.

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