Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Novel-writing.
  • noun Innovation; novelty; preference for novelty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Innovation.

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  • noun uncountable, literature The dominance of the novel as a literary form.
  • noun obsolete innovation

Etymologies

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novel +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • This series even in spired me to try some novelism myself about killers and magic

    Interview: Brent Weeks Author of The Night Angel Trilogy Jeff C 2008

  • In reprobating this detestable school, we certainly have no hope that our remarks will reform the French novelism of the day; but we call on the critical press of England to take up the rational and righteous task of reforming our own.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

  • The recording angel had probably noted the fact of her novelism among her virtues, but she had an imperceptible earthly public.

    This Is the End Stella Benson 1912

  • It has always seemed to us that some of these gentry were influenced by resentment because a humorist had dared to attempt novelism.

    Twain, Mark: Selected Obituaries 1910

  • Why not press into the service of instructive novelism truths stranger than fiction, among characters more marked, and names of higher note, than the whole hot-pressed family of the Fitzes?

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • Why not press into the service of instructive novelism truths stranger than fiction, among characters more marked, and names of higher note, than the whole hot-pressed family of the Fitzes?

    An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

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