| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|listik adjective
: of, relating to, or characteristic of a novel
slowness … is an element essential to the novelistic form — as opposed to the dramatic or short-story form — R.C.Hutchinson
the novelistic fashions he parodied and superseded — William Irvine
• nov·el·is·ti·cal·ly -tə̇k(ə)lē adverb