literary
adjective
pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature.
literariness
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a word derived from
literary.
Example Sentences
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For all the literariness of the drama, the plot of “The Inheritance” is as roiling as a soap opera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
His book doesn’t have the grit and the rage and determined literariness of D’Aguiar’s and Grue’s books.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
In the years since 2000, Hodgman has made his way as a humorist and storyteller at the confluence of Brooklyn literariness, podcasting and, for lack of a better term, “nerd culture.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2017
“A book-buying public, almost immediately derided by its ‘betters’—for its sentimentality, for its pretense to literariness where there was none.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2015
She had been a little too much afraid, before that, of Logan's literariness to dare call him up.
From I've Married Marjorie by Margaret Widdemer
