storyscape en · NOUN
Etymology
From story + -scape.
Meanings
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A notional landscape made up of stories or narratives.
One factor is the increasingly immersive power of ideological narratives and virtual realities. If you can react to an election loss by retreating immediately into a storyscape where the outcome was a cheat, carried about by means of voter fraud or Russian interference, then the decisiveness of any given outcome will inevitably diminish.
2020 November 3, Ross Douthat, “2020 Will Not Be Decisive”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| storyscapes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |