Pirandellian [pir-ən-DEL-ee-ən]

Part of speech: adjective
Origin: Proper name, 20th century

1. Describing drama in which actors become inseparable and indistinct from the characters that they play.
2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), Italian dramatist and poet.

Examples of pirandellian in a sentence

"The experimental play mixed fiction and reality in a truly Pirandellian manner."

"Not all audiences respond favorably to the Pirandellian move of merging characters with the real-life identities of the actors who play them."

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