Dictionary

fictiony en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English fictiony From fiction + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal, rare) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fiction.
   • Gabriel Tolliver is "fictiony," and too much sweetening is sprinkled into the tale […] 1969, New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art:
   • The taint of being 'fictiony' is, above all, to be avoided." *** Harper & Brothers, 49 East 33rd Street, New York, N. Y., and[…] 1927, The Editor: The Journal of Information for Literary Workers:
   • ... scales in each chapter will help you navigate between the bits you can cite when writing your own histories, and the fictiony sparkles enlivening those bits. The fictiony sparkles are happening in the time of the room in which the[…] 2021, Carla Nappi, Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

Forms

Relateds

science-fictiony

Synonyms

fictionish