narrativity

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How much something tells a story

noun
/nɛrəˈvædəti/

Literature

: narratividad

The narrativity of the film engages the audience by presenting a compelling story with well-developed characters.
modes of narrativity
simple narrativity
underlying narrativity

Examples

The necessary and sufficient condition of narrativity was the presence in a text of a narrator telling a story.

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In simple narrativity, the semantic content of the text is a plot and little else.

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From a property we could take for granted, the narrativity of the text becomes a problematic issue.

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The second type of underlying narrativity is therefore simply the narrative potential of life.

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The following discussion presents a list of candidates for the mode of narrativity.

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There are universal laws of narrativity, and they can be formulated.

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The investigation of the modes of narrativity presupposes a stable definition of narrative structure.

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On the continuous scale of the degrees of narrativity, the diluted mode occupies the lower end.

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From simple to braided narrativity, the first five modes outline a typology of plots.

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Many readers would consider Les Trois Mousquetaires to have a higher degree of narrativity than La Nausee (Narratology 145).

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Synonyms

narration

vsnarrativity

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Telling a story or describing events

focuses on the degree to which something shows a story structure

narratio

vsnarrativity

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A spoken or written story that explains events

measures how strongly something presents a story rather than being the account

Surface Forms

narrativity singular

narrativities plural

Morphology

narrativity = narrative (transparent) = narrative + ity

Standard noun formation from the adjective 'narrative' with the productive suffix '-ity' yields the meaning 'the quality of being narrative', which is directly predictable for learners.

Etymology

Narrativity comes from the Latin root narra-, which means 'to tell', and it is the same root in narrate and narrative. So narrativity is about how much something 'tells' a story, or how story-like it feels.