English edit

Etymology edit

novel +‎ -ism

Noun edit

novelism (countable and uncountable, plural novelisms)

  1. (uncountable, literature) The dominance of the novel as a literary form.
  2. (obsolete) innovation

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for novelism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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