fictive
1
8.5
- adjective
- /ˈfɪktɪv/
:
ficticio
- One participant noted, "My school teacher, fictive kin, helped me; she was my inspiration."
- fictive kin
- fictive kin relationships
- fictive kinship
They lack much of the brain, and yet they can engage in what's called fictive movement.
- They lack much of the brain, and yet they can engage in what's called fictive movement.
- I can show you that too, because of right now I'm taking the class where I learn how to calculate the value of a fictive imaginary Airbnb.
Examples
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Hitchcock's narration exposes the deceptive character of appearances and the fictive nature of romance that conceals predatory desire.
Academic text (1999) -
"In A la Recherche...," says Stephen Kellman, "we catch a fictive creator in flagrante delicto."
Academic text (1993) -
Some videos include music, narration, and different fictive elements that refer to the stories being told.
Academic text (2017) -
One participant's fictive kin played a vital role in her going to college.
Academic text (2008) -
The same mechanism allows us to engage vicariously with fictive characters' emotions.
Academic text (2013) -
Some participants were closer to kin and fictive kin than to family members.
Academic text (2008) -
What roles do imaginative and fictive language creations by Native peoples play in this act of representation?
Academic text (1996) -
Consequently, study participants relied on kin and fictive kin for advice and help with solving problems.
Academic text (2008) -
The way to get out of our traumas, in fact, is to invent a Second World, fictive world or artistic world that will avoid the trauma.
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In her latest novel, the author creates a fictive world filled with magical creatures and adventurous heroes.
Synonyms
106
3.4
Made up in stories or in your mind, not real
31
5.1
Not real and made up
21
8.0
Very strange and like something made up in dreams or stories
12
6.0
Imaginative but not true or practical
Imaginative in a way that is not practical
Antonyms
How Real
Surface Forms
Morphology
fictive = fiction (transparent) = fict + ive
The adjective is directly formed from the notion of 'fiction' with the productive suffix '-ive' meaning 'having the quality of', so learners who know 'fiction' can infer 'fictive'.
Etymology
Fictive comes from the Latin root fict-, which means 'to shape' or 'make'. It shares the same root as fiction, so something that is fictive is 'made up' or imagined rather than real.