Scheherazadean

English

Alternative forms

• Scheherazadian

Etymology

From Scheherazade +‎ -ean.

Adjective

Scheherazadean (comparative more Scheherazadean, superlative most Scheherazadean)

1. Of or relating to the fictional storyteller Scheherazade.
   • 1994, Robert Scott Leventhal, Reading After Foucault:

     Instead of following the Scheherazadean strategy of delaying death, such suicidal narratives are a means of hastening the narrator's end.

   • 2000, Darius Cooper, Dudley Andrew, William Rothman, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity:

     Ray makes her determination all the more sensuously Scheherazadean when she calls for her servant Hiria and demands that the old woman come and tell her a story.

Further reading

• Scheherazadean, Scheherazadian at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.