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FICTIONALISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fictionalisation mean? 

FICTIONALISATION (noun)
  The noun FICTIONALISATION has 2 senses:

1. a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fictionplay

2. writing in a fictional formplay

  Familiarity information: FICTIONALISATION used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FICTIONALISATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

fictionalisation; fictionalization

Hypernyms ("fictionalisation" is a kind of...):

literary composition; literary work (imaginative or creative writing)

Derivation:

fictionalise (convert into the form or the style of a novel)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Writing in a fictional form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fabrication; fictionalisation; fictionalization

Hypernyms ("fictionalisation" is a kind of...):

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Derivation:

fictionalise (convert into the form or the style of a novel)


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