narrativistic

English

Etymology

From narrative +‎ -istic.

Adjective

narrativistic (comparative more narrativistic, superlative most narrativistic)

1. Relating to a narrative.
   • 2007, Julia C. Strauss, Donal B.Cruise O'Brien, editors, Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 73:

     Because they are fixed, anticipated and therefore deliberately planned on both sides, they allow an unusual degree of premeditation to actors who can bring to these well-designed narrativistic strategies.

   • 2014, David Kellogg, The Great Globe and All Who It Inherit: Narrative and Dialogue in Story-telling with Halliday, Vygotsky, and Shakespeare, Springer, →ISBN, page 125:

     But the “draw story” and the chant are both narrativistic tactics, and they actually do little more than set the scene and introduce the characters.

   • 2020, Russell Powell, Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 76:

     If narrativistic explanations are to be intelligible, they must provide causal explanations (see chapter 2), and making good on causal claims may require appealing, if tacitly, to laws that explain the interactions identified.

Related terms

• narrativist