Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

metafictionist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: metafic-tion-ist
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A writer of metafiction.

Example Sentences

"As a maker of such writing, he descends from a long line traceable from Whitman and Melville to the modernists and Mackey’s idol, Baraka, to the metafictionists John Barth and William Gass."

Etymology

From metafiction + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: metafiction

Inflected Forms

metafictionists (plural)

Questions

What does metafictionist mean?: A writer of metafiction.
Where does metafictionist come from?: From metafiction + -ist.

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