fictionally
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5.5
- adverb
- /ˈfɪkʃənəli/
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ficcionalmente
- By writing within a discursive mode that literally or fictionally legitimizes the institution of marriage, the author of the Defensa protects herself and her text from being considered theologically contentious.
- fictionally located
Examples
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In their relationships with pets, women found (or are configured fictionally to have found) emotions of love, amusement, and affection.
Academic text (2015) -
Fictional existence differs entirely from our actual existence because fictional entities are brought into existence by fictional texts: "To exist fictionally means to exist in different modes, ranks, and degrees" (147).
Academic text (2006) -
"The film is fictionally presented as historical, and Jimmy tries hard to be a historian.
Academic text (2002) -
A very simple thing happened science fictionally, in which reality fractures.
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The Blair women were politically informed and participated, fictionally or not, in the discussion.
Blog text (34) -
It deals fictionally with the hallucinogenic drug, LSD.
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Some view the realization of a logical impossibility in a fictional work as an indication that this seeming impossibility has become at least fictionally possible.
Academic text (1995) -
What role might comical and satirical narratives play in fictionally representing and ethically engaging readers in ecological risks such as climate change or species extinction?
Academic text (2018) -
Three Guineas juxtaposes facts and photographs with intensive ideological critique, assembling them within what fictionally constitutes the occasion for Woolf's writing: letters in response to societies asking for contributions.
Academic text (2017) -
In the novel, the characters interact with fictionally created worlds that are both imaginative and fantastical.
Synonyms
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5.7
In a way that shows imagination and looks unreal
In a made-up way that is not real
In a way that is imagined and not real
Happens only in your mind
Antonyms
How Fictional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fictionally comes from fiction, which comes from the Latin fingere 'to shape' or 'to make'. So, to do something fictionally is to 'make it up' in your imagination rather than in real life.