pseudonarrative

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pseudo- +‎ narrative

Adjective[edit]

pseudonarrative (comparative more pseudonarrative, superlative most pseudonarrative)

  1. Apparently, but not actually, narrative.
    • 2009 May 29, Mike Hale, “Pretty Clouds, Vistas and Sardines, Too”, in New York Times[1]:
      If, like the many slavish devotees of “Planet Earth” and the even earlier “Blue Planet,” you are susceptible to the narcotizing effect of gorgeous landscape photography and the pseudonarrative pull of cleverly edited animal behavior, then why resist?