Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fieldingesque

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fieldingesque
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

In the style of the novelist and dramatist Henry Fielding

Example Sentences

"Sexually frank and verbally inventive, Cleland's text constitutes an intriguing response to the dual claims of Richardsonian and Fieldingesque fiction."
"But the only examples that Benson provides of this separate Fieldingesque perspective are the novel's title and what he calls the self-pitying epigraph from Gertrude Stein (ibid.)."
"The reader finds him/herself in a Fieldingesque landscape full of ruddy life but marked by scepticism about human motivation and about enthusiasm and pretension in all its guises."

Etymology

From Fielding + -esque.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Fielding

Inflected Forms

more Fieldingesque (comparative) most Fieldingesque (superlative)

Questions

What does fieldingesque mean?: In the style of the novelist and dramatist Henry Fielding
Where does fieldingesque come from?: From Fielding + -esque.

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