belletristic

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of belles-lettres.
 * 1) * 1986, Aizawa Seishisai (Translated by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi), Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825, Harvard University Press, page 169:
 * if they do not owe their allegiance to shamanism or Buddhism, then most surely they commit themselves to some perverse form of Confucianism or belletristic foolishness.
 * 1) Written or appreciated for aesthetic value rather than content
 * 2) * 1992, Isaac Bashevis Singer (Translated by Leonard Wolf), The Certificate, Farrar Straus Giroux, page 1:
 * I had already concluded that not one of my writings was publishable, having myself analyzed the faults of my belletristic production.
 * I had already concluded that not one of my writings was publishable, having myself analyzed the faults of my belletristic production.

Translations

 * German:, schöngeistig
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: