Novelistic
adjective
Relating to the style or technique of a novel, a type of book.
His novelistic approach to biography has garnered a lot of praise.
Often appears as...
- novelistic technique
- novelistic style
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Literary
adjective
Like or characteristic of a novel, especially in being complex or highly detailed.
The case had a novelistic feel with its multiple plot twists.
Often appears as...
- novelistic detail
- novelistic complexity
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Literary
adjective
Relating to the style or technique of a novel, a type of book.
His novelistic approach to biography has garnered a lot of praise.
Often appears as...
- novelistic technique
- novelistic style
Usage tips
Literary
adjective
Like or characteristic of a novel, especially in being complex or highly detailed.
The case had a novelistic feel with its multiple plot twists.
Often appears as...
- novelistic detail
- novelistic complexity
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Genre Indication
Use 'novelistic' to indicate a method typical of fictional storytelling, often to describe non-fiction.
The biographer's novelistic approach helped readers feel connected to historical figures.
Pro Tip 2/3Creative License
'Novelistic' implies creative freedom within writing, contrary to strict factual reporting.
The journalist adopted a novelistic style, adding flair to the sports commentary.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Depth
When 'novelistic' is used, expect emotional insight and depth akin to character development in novels.
His memoir has novelistic depth, exploring his emotions sincerely.
Pro Tip 1/3Genre Indication
Use 'novelistic' to indicate a method typical of fictional storytelling, often to describe non-fiction.
The biographer's novelistic approach helped readers feel connected to historical figures.
Pro Tip 2/3Creative License
'Novelistic' implies creative freedom within writing, contrary to strict factual reporting.
The journalist adopted a novelistic style, adding flair to the sports commentary.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Depth
When 'novelistic' is used, expect emotional insight and depth akin to character development in novels.
His memoir has novelistic depth, exploring his emotions sincerely.
Pro Tip 1/3Genre Indication
Use 'novelistic' to indicate a method typical of fictional storytelling, often to describe non-fiction.
The biographer's novelistic approach helped readers feel connected to historical figures.
Pro Tip 2/3Creative License
'Novelistic' implies creative freedom within writing, contrary to strict factual reporting.
The journalist adopted a novelistic style, adding flair to the sports commentary.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Depth
When 'novelistic' is used, expect emotional insight and depth akin to character development in novels.
His memoir has novelistic depth, exploring his emotions sincerely.
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Rob Sheffield
American Journalist
The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
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Lev Grossman
American Novelist
Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.
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Gregory Benford
American Physicist
It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially.
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Lisa Joy
American Director
But in a TV series, you can really take a novelistic approach and explore characters that you wouldn't ordinarily see, in a level of complexity that you wouldn't ordinarily get to explore just out of the sheer time constraints in a feature.
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Nic Pizzolatto
American Novelist
As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.
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Jacob Anderson
British Actor
I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.
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Adrianne Palicki
American Actress
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
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Ethan Canin
American Author
How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.
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Richard K. Morgan
English Author
I've come to regard the superior end of HBO drama as, above all, novelistic.
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John Niven
Scottish Author
Twitter is almost novelistic.
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Rob Sheffield
American Journalist
The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
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Lev Grossman
American Novelist
Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.
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Gregory Benford
American Physicist
It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially.
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Lisa Joy
American Director
But in a TV series, you can really take a novelistic approach and explore characters that you wouldn't ordinarily see, in a level of complexity that you wouldn't ordinarily get to explore just out of the sheer time constraints in a feature.
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Nic Pizzolatto
American Novelist
As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.
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Jacob Anderson
British Actor
I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.
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Adrianne Palicki
American Actress
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
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Ethan Canin
American Author
How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.
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Richard K. Morgan
English Author
I've come to regard the superior end of HBO drama as, above all, novelistic.
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John Niven
Scottish Author
Twitter is almost novelistic.
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