fictive

IPA: fˈɪktɪv

noun

  • (Internet slang) In claimed cases of dissociative identity disorder: an introject based on a character from a fictional work.

adjective

  • Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
  • Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented.
  • Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal.
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Examples of "fictive" in Sentences

  • Her novel The Sweetest Dream (2001) is a stand-alone sequel in fictive form.
  • He described the excited states of the liquid by the motion of certain fictive particles called quasiparticles.
  • Painting is, in other words, a fictive art, and it is often most shamelessly fictional when masquerading as unembellished Realism.
  • However, for as many life stages and changes as may arise, one's immediate family has the opportunity to extend non-relative or "fictive" kinship ties through deliberate selection.
  • It is particularly critical of the celebrated "Autobiography of Malcolm X," now a staple of college reading lists, which was written with Alex Haley and which Mr. Marable described as "fictive."
  • Whatever we call these - whether imaginations or not, indeed you mean to pronounce the pandoramas of 'fictive' dramas: analogic handouts likely to enrich what could be useful should we care to learn.
  • On a tangential note, I can just about see the notion of fictive poetry, cause narrative started out in verse form, after all; and there are works like Tony Harrison’s “Prometheus” which fuse poetry and drama pretty neatly.
  • This remark might indicate that Bacon finds the same doctrinal problem with the “esse habitudinis” that he finds with the “esse habituale” (i.e., it introduces a foil for some kind of fictive being), but we cannot be certain of this, since he never returned to this topic in the Compendium.

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