metafictional

English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ fictional.

Adjective

metafictional (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
   • 2024 May 1, Lisa Allardice, “Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Full of sly jokes, riddles and metafictional high-jinks, his work had the voltage of a thriller (offering a rare voice of disapproval, the New Yorker critic James Wood accused his works of pedalling a “B-movie atmosphere”).

Derived terms

• metafictionality
• metafictionally

Translations

of, relating to, or being metafiction

Catalan: metaficcional m or f German: metafiktional Greek: μεταμυθοπλαστικός (el) (metamythoplastikós) Romanian: metaficțional