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novelish en · ADJ

Etymology

From novel + -ish. Piecewise doublet of novelesque.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a novel.
   • Yet he managed to throw over the most unlikely material a novelish or at least a romantic character, which is sometimes — nay, very often — utterly wanting in professed and admitted masters of the business[…] 1919, George Saintsbury, A history of the French novel: to the close of the 19th century: Volume 2:
   • Two such books dawned in me when I first saw our post-encephalitic patients: Compulsion and Constraint (a study of subcortical disorders and mechanisms) and People of the Abyss (a novelish, Jack Londonish book). 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:

Forms

Synonyms

novelesque · novellike