defictionalization

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ fictionalization.

Noun

defictionalization (countable and uncountable, plural defictionalizations)

1. The process of defictionalizing.
   • 1983, William Thomas Hobdell Jackson, George Stade, Jacques Barzun, European Writers, New York: Scribner:

     Musil is committed to the dissolution of the ego and to the defictionalization and depersonalization of character as Woolf expresses it in “The Narrow Bridge of Art.”

2. Something defictionalized.