suspension of disbelief
Meanings
noun
- The acceptance of people, for the sake of appreciation of art (including literature and the like), of what they know to be a nonfactual premise of the work of art.
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Etymology
Coined by English poet, literary critic and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1817.
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