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fictive
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "formed by imagination," from French fictif , from stem of Latin fictio (see fiction ). Earlier as "convincingly deceptive" (late 15c.). Related: Fictively .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It happens sometimes that the fictive marriage turns into a real one, but that depends on the couple. ▪ The Red Studio and the views of Matisse at work show an artist exploring the relationship between real and fictive worlds. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. fictional, unreal, fanciful or invented
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fictive may refer to: Fictive kinship Fictive marriage, a term for Marriage of convenience Fictive motion , a relatively new subject in psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics Fictive architecture, a term for Trompe-l'œil
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed , false , fictitious , pretended , put on , sham ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fictive \Fic"tive\, a. [Cf. F. fictif.] Feigned; counterfeit. ``The fount of fictive tears.'' --Tennyson.
Usage examples of fictive.
If in each of the scenes in his pattern, considered on its own, Nabokov has tenderly preserved the independence of time even as he designs a pattern too subtle to be perceived without many replayings of the fictive past, is it not possible that an infinite care could be allowing us total freedom while weaving its own designs through our free choices, so that even the most trifling or mundane details of our lives could take on unforeseeable significance?
There are unrecorded or fictive nodes in time, moments of minimum or maximum flux, with an especial abundance of possible futures, at which critical moments may occur.
And I recalled that Buon Ma Thuot was near the location of his fictiveor if not fictive, ill-rememberedfirebase.