Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fictiveness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fic-tive-ness
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The quality of being fictive.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: fictive

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does fictiveness mean?: The quality of being fictive.
Where does fictiveness come from?: From fictive + -ness.

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