Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

narrativize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nar-ra-tivize
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To turn into a narrative.

Example Sentences

"[…] for to narrate, to narrativize, in fiction or criticism, is also to exercise power."
"Readers narrativize such texts by resorting to the experiencing frame, overruling the oddity in pronominal usage that makes such texts difficult […]"
"Witnesses may misconstrue and misrecount what they see for a variety of reasons other than the inherent unreliability of sensory perception and the inevitable bias of retrospective narrativizing — and Hannah's defense raised several further hypotheses to explain the incriminating testimony presented at her trial."
"To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human."

Etymology

Etymology tree English narrative Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English narrativize From narrative + -ize.

Inflected Forms

narrativizes (present, singular) narrativizing (participle, present) narrativized (participle, past) narrativized (past)

Questions

What does narrativize mean?: To turn into a narrative.
Where does narrativize come from?: Etymology tree English narrative Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English narrativize From narrative + -ize.

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