novelistic
[nov-uh-lis-tik]
- of, relating to, or characteristic of novels.
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Origin of novelistic
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Contemporary Examples
They have a novelistic drive to them in which all of that research is integrated in a powerful and sustaining way.
He tried to brand what he was doing—calling it a "novelistic chronicle," or an "expanded view of the memoir form."
The narrative of House of Cards, itself based on a novel by Michael Dobbs, is largely dependent on a novelistic structure.
He admired Tom Wolfe, and he had shockingly grand, novelistic aspirations of capturing full men.
In fact, the more you know about Watergate, the more you will enjoy his novelistic re-creation of that remarkable time.
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Historical Examples
This, I take it, is the novelistic imagination of which we hear so much.
Happy HouseBetsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg
It was a pen name devised by the feminine member of the novelistic firm.
SuperwomenAlbert Payson Terhune
Define the three moods of fiction,––epic, dramatic, and novelistic.
A Manual of the Art of FictionClayton Hamilton
You know, Primrose, my gifts lie in the poetic and novelistic line.
The Palace BeautifulL. T. Meade
But intuition of character was a forte with Miss Edgeworth and the grand secret of her novelistic success.
Maria EdgeworthHelen Zimmern
novelistic
- of or characteristic of novels, esp in style or method of treatmenthis novelistic account annoyed other historians
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