nonfactual
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6.7
- adjective
- /nɒnˈfæktʃuəl/
:
no factual
- The presentation included several nonfactual statements that misrepresented the research findings.
Examples
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His conclusion now: "The Bible may be expressing history in nonfactual terms."
Blog text (8) -
"Since you irrationally believe that Wikipedia's articles on logical fallacies are nonfactual," where did I say this?
Blog text (17) -
Since you irrationally believe that Wikipedia's articles on logical fallacies are nonfactual, here are some links:
Blog text (17) -
Memory blending is a merging of the witnesses' memory with nonfactual or inaccurate information (Metcalfe, 1990).
Academic text (2004) -
Irrealis modality is a modality that connotes that the proposition with which it is associated is nonactual or nonfactual.
Blog text (31) -
Rather, Young advocated the utterly illogical view that Genesis 1–11 "may be expressing history in nonfactual terms." 56
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At the same time, Van Susteren—sometimes, often in her opening show—teased a more blatantly nonfactual claim, even as she didn't explicitly embrace it.
Academic text (2016) -
The report was criticized for its nonfactual claims about the incident.
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Many conspiracy theories are based on nonfactual assumptions rather than evidence.
Synonyms
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9.4
Describing a situation that did not happen but could have
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6.1
Not based on facts and therefore not true
Antonyms
How Factual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nonfactual is built from non- meaning 'not' and factual, from fact meaning 'something true or known'. So nonfactual describes information that is 'not based on facts'.