Definition of "belletristic" [bel•le•tris•tic]

• Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of belles-lettres (adjective)
• Written or appreciated for aesthetic value rather than content (adjective)

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• "The belletristic form to which The Spectator belongs is integral to implementing this future for philosophy."
• "The legacy, however, of this controversy still clings to London like sticky pitch: all of his Northland sagas are labelled as "literature for children and youth" whereas Martin Eden and other "mature" fiction is catalogued and sold as "fine" or belletristic literature."
• ""It was written with newspapers before me," Southey recalled, "as fast as newspaper could be put into blank verse" (LR 1. 3n), and Woodring offers that "Few belletristic works signed by major writers can ever have come hotter from the chronicled events" (195)."