plenty of words and phrases originate from fiction

quixotic, scrooge, shangri-la, Uncle Tom, gargantuan, kafkaesque, blurb, milquetoast

and words like cyberspace were first used in fiction

once real people use them, they stop being fictional words

fl4regun 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The word was "Brobdingnagian", which apparently means "giant", from the book, Brobdingnag, published in the 1700s. I know all of the words you listed, even if I don't know t he books they came from, on the other hand, I've never heard anyone use "Brobdingnagian" and I've never heard of the book it came from either.

	▲	apical_dendrite 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know that one, but I do know gargantuan, and pantagruelian, which come from a 17th century novel by Rabelais as well as yahoo and Lilliputian, which come from a 1726 novel by Swift.

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krustyburger 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Kafkaesque doesn’t originate directly from fiction like your other examples any more than a word like Dickensian does.

	▲	triceratops 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well it does and it doesn't. It wouldn't be a word if Franz Kafka hadn't written any fiction. Same for Dickensian.