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Meaning of litfic | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈlɪtfɪk

Definitions

literary fiction

informal, uncountable

Examples

“True. But as many genre writers who otherwise learn well in classes have found out, if they want to learn writing, it's hard to do it in a group that sneers at anything not litfic.”
“It's a fascinating distinction, and one that also has the neat effect of moving the debate on from the contentious territory of the SF/litfic turfwar into that of value-neutral literary theory.”
“I was once described on Twitter as a “litfic writer” who was “Quite Put Out” by a genre writer's mindless repetition of the above tropes[…]”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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