nonfictional
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- nonfictionality noun
Example Sentences
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Third Place Books bookseller Andrea Pangilinan, who organized the store’s new Radical Romance Book Club, said that sales of the genre tend to react to the state of things in the nonfictional world.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2022
Gabler, a fictional character, seemed to be just as real for Hardwick as the decidedly nonfictional Plath.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021
On the contrary, the nonfictional three-quarters of my book describe these developments in detail.
From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021
How do you define the term astromycology here in our nonfictional universe?
From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2021
“But we can start with the history of the Amyr. Or any nonfictional reports of the Chandrian. Anything about either one really. I haven’t been able to find a thing.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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