Synonyms & related words for metafictional

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Words related to metafictional

Explore words related to metafictional — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include metafiction, metafictionist, fictionality, novelistic, fictionize, fictional, nonfictional, fictions. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does metafictional come from?

The word metafictional breaks down into 3 roots of Greek and Latin origin: meta-, from Greek meta (“self-referential”); fiction, from Latin fingere (“to form, invent”); and -al, from Latin alis (“pertaining to”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.