narrative

Forms

1.Telling a story.
2.Overly talkative; garrulous.
- But wise through time, and narrative with age.
3.Of or relating to narration.
- There is a deep divide in our species. On one side, the narrators: those who are indeed intensely narrative, self-storying, Homeric, in their sense of life and self, whether they look to the past or the future.

1.The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
2.That which is narrated.
3.A representation of an event or story in a way to promote a certain point of view.
- The posters quickly became embroiled in the interminable battle over narrative in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
- Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
4.A manner of conveying a story, fictional or otherwise, in a body of work.
- The plot is full of holes, but the narrative is extremely compelling.

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Borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, nerrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō (“to narrate”).

By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -ive.