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antinovelist en · NOUN

Etymology

From antinovel + -ist or anti- + novelist.

Meanings

1. A writer of antinovels.
   • The difference between a modern novelist like Roth and an eighteenth-century moralist and antinovelist like Rousseau […] 1995, Dennis Porter, Rousseau's legacy: emergence and eclipse of the writer in France:
   • But for Augustine, as for the harsher Puritans who followed him, there is no real point in saying what some humanist antinovelists very much wished to say […] 1997, Margaret Anne Doody, The True Story of the Novel:
   • At no point in her writing does Mary Lee Settle become an antinovelist or a player of literary games. 2000, Roger Shattuck, Candor and perversion: literature, education, and the arts:

Forms

Translations (1)

ru антироманист (a writer of antinovels)