different between literary vs infrarealism

English

Etymology

From French littéraire.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /?l?t????i/, /?l?t(?)?i/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?l?t???(?)?i/, [???????(?)?i]

Adjective

literary (comparative more literary, superlative most literary)

1. Relating to literature.
   • c. 1768, Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare

     He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.

2. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
   • 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York

     in the literary as well as fashionable world

3. Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
4. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
5. Bookish.

Synonyms

• bookly

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Further reading

• literary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• literary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• trilayer

English

Etymology

infra- +? realism

Noun

infrarealism (uncountable)

1. A literary movement of the 1970s, founded in Mexico by poet Mario Santiago Papasquiaro and Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño.

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