English Explanatory Dictionary

tempics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A method of reading narratives in terms of time and the current instant.

Word forms

tempics

Etymology

Coined by Gary Saul Morson in the 1990s, perhaps from temporal and poetics.

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