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fantasy of manners

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables
fan-ta-sy of -man-ners
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A literary work in a fantasy genre that is also a comedy of manners.

Etymology

Modelled on earlier comedy of manners. First used in print by science fiction critic Donald G. Keller in the April 1991 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction.

Inflected Forms

fantasies of manners (plural)

Questions

What does fantasy of manners mean?
A literary work in a fantasy genre that is also a comedy of manners.
Where does fantasy of manners come from?
Modelled on earlier comedy of manners. First used in print by science fiction critic Donald G. Keller in the April 1991 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction.

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