Extradiegetic

Origin

- + diegetic

Full definition of extradiegetic

Adjective

1. External to the narrative.
• 2011, Harry M. Benshoff, Dark Shadows, Wayne State University Press (2011), ISBN 9780814334393, page 38:This voice-over functions very differently from the extradiegetic narrator of the radio soap opera however, who tended to impose ideological coherence on the text, as well as serve as spokesman for the products being sold.
• 2011, Alison Peirse, "Horrible Women: Abjection, Gender and Ageing in Nip/Tuck", in Nip/Tuck: Television That Gets Under Your Skin (eds. Roz Kaveney & Jennifer Stoy), I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd (2011), ISBN 9781845118624, page 76:However, in this sequence Colleen's actions alone do not make her horrific. Rather, the extradiegetic music condemns her.
• 2011, José M. Yebra, "A Terrible Beauty: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Trauma of Gayness in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty", in Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction (eds. Susana Onega & Jean-Michel Ganteau), Rodopi (2011), ISBN 9789042033269, page 183:Instead, an extradiegetic narrator renders detached testimony of the hero's traumatic story in the Thatcher era.

Synonyms

• Doylist
• out-of-universe

Antonyms

• intradiegetic
• in-universe
• Watsonian