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Diegetic vs Dieretic - What's the difference?

diegetic | dieretic |

As adjectives the difference between diegetic and dieretic

is that diegetic is of, or relating to diegesis while dieretic is (linguistics) featuring.

diegetic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • of, or relating to diegesis
  • (of film music) that occurs as part of the action (rather than as background), and can be heard by the film's characters

    • Synonyms

    * narrative

    Antonyms

    * non-diegetic

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from diegetic) * autodiegetic * extradiegetic * heterodiegetic * homodiegetic * hypodiegetic * infradiegetic * intradiegetic * metadiegetic

    dieretic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * diaeretic (UK and Commonwealth English) * (dated)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (linguistics) Featuring .
    • The word ''create'' is dieretic , whereas ''creature'' is synaeretic.
  • Written with a diæresis.
    • Some words have many spellings: Take, for example, ''coordinate'', which also has a hyphenated spelling variant — ''co-ordinate'' — and a dieretic one, ''''.