narrativium

I mean, if it's happened twice, that's narrativium at work and it has to KEEP happening!

Making Light: The Colorful Holiday Customs Of Our European Friends 2009

When using narrativium in politics, however, one really ought to understand the original story.

Archive 2008-08-01 West End Bob 2008

"a child's instinctive grasp of narrativium [sic] is that this has got to end well"? but he is also very clear that, while his witch can take away physical pain (she draws it out into a ball, then dumps it), she cannot, and will not, take loss, sadness, or grief.

Terry Pratchett: 'I'm open to joy. But I'm also more cynical' 2010

But unlike on Discworld, where the element narrativium allows the power of stories to rewrite reality, the stories we tell with statistics are much less powerful.

The maths that tells us when a scientific discovery is real – or not Jacob Aron 2025