fictive
fictitious; imaginary.
pertaining to the creation of fiction: fictive inventiveness.
Origin of fictive
1Other words from fictive
- fic·tive·ly, adverb
- non·fic·tive, adjective
- non·fic·tive·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with fictive
- fictional, fictitious, fictive
Words Nearby fictive
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How to use fictive in a sentence
Anything else is an “entirely fictive alternate reality” where people who disagree with him “neurotically retreat.”
Are Critics Of Israeli Occupation Getting Nervous? | David Suissa | March 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMy goal (not my achievement, my goal) was to work like Joan Didion in a fictive realm.
And there is another, unexpected reason a series like NYC Prep seems more fictive than genuine.
She made even the true seem fictive, while Miriam's effort was to make the fictive true.
The Tragic Muse | Henry JamesIts grossness must be transposed, as it were, to a fictive scale, a scale of fainter tints and generalized signs.
Picture and Text | Henry James
Of this part of the Gospel, Loisy says, 'rien n'est plus arbitraire comme exégèse, ni plus faible comme narration fictive.'
Outspoken Essays | William Ralph IngeI question if there is another fictive utterance to surpass this one in authenticity.
Browning's Heroines | Ethel Colburn MayneI was for the time entirely the historian, with little time to dream of the fictive material with which my memory was filled.
A Daughter of the Middle Border | Hamlin Garland
British Dictionary definitions for fictive
/ (ˈfɪktɪv) /
of, relating to, or able to create fiction
a rare word for fictitious
Derived forms of fictive
- fictively, adverb
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