fictionists

noun

plural of fictionist
as in novelists

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  1. storytellers
  2. fabulists
Noun
  • The students who wrote these letters are a dazzlingly multilingual crowd, natural storytellers who can toggle between three or four languages in the same conversation.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Throughout the first twenty years of our history as digital storytellers, family-life representation has continued on the same trajectory that started with the fantasy-family home videos first made by amateur filmmakers in the 1920s and ’30s.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of storytellers
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  • The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
  • More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived.
    — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 19 Jan. 2026
Definition of fabulists
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