Essayistic

Origin

essayist + -ic

Full definition of essayistic

Adjective

1. Characteristic of, or proper to, an essayist
• Mr. Taylor, the British author of “Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Age,” is a biographer (he has written lives of Thackeray and Orwell) and literary critic, and he ...
  tells this story with a good deal of essayistic flair, precision and flyaway wit.

Derived terms

• essayistically