diegetic

• diagetic (misspelling)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διηγητικός (diēgētikós). By surface analysis, diegesis +‎ -etic.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪ.əˈdʒɛ.tɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɪk
• Hyphenation: di‧e‧get‧ic

diegetic (not comparable)

1. (narratology) Of or relating to diegesis; existing within a fictional universe (rather than as background), and able to be perceived by the characters.

   Synonym: narrative

   Antonyms: nondiegetic, commentative

   Hyponyms: autodiegetic, extradiegetic, heterodiegetic, homodiegetic, hypodiegetic, infradiegetic, intradiegetic, metadiegetic

   diegetic music

   • 2018 July 23, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Music of 'Sharp Objects' Contains a Chilling Message”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 August 2018:

     Camille is the hyperactive DJ of her own life, queuing up tunes on her cracked iPhone when on drives, in bed, and in the bath. Her stepdad plays piano, and the town’s social life revolves around a karaoke bar. Almost always, the soundtrack is diegetic: Viewers hear the same thing as the characters do.

• diegetic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “diegetic”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Borrowed from German diegetisch.

diegetic m or n (feminine singular diegetică, masculine plural diegetici, feminine/neuter plural diegetice)

1. (narratology) diegetic

• diegetic in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN