nonfictive
- adjective
- /nɒnˈfɪktɪv/
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no ficticio
- The documentary provided a nonfictive account of the historical events that shaped the city.
- nonfictive world
Examples
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The producers and the recipients of the sketch and synopsis stages of the narrative belong to our actual world and are nonfictive beings, whereas the producers and recipients on the narrational level of the narrative belong to a fictive world and are genuinely fictive.
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Having realized that the Napoleon of a novel is existentially different from the nonfictive Napoleon of our own nonfictive world, one will be prepared to accept the thesis that the Napoleons in two different novels featuring protagonists of that name are existentially different as well.
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But this kind of reference is a reference to a fictional text that is fictional not only for us, the nonfictive beings of the actual world, but also for the fictive narrator.
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In the eyes of the fictive narrator, this fictive stratum is, of course, nonfictive.
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Nongenuinely fictive beings, to the extent that they are fictivized, likewise see the fictive world as nonfictive.
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And what can be the aim of an attack against a book about whose contents, if it fails to be identical with the fictive stratum of Richardson's novel, we, as nonfictive readers, seem to be unable to know anything?
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Having realized that the Napoleon of a novel is existentially different from the nonfictive Napoleon of our own nonfictive world, one will be prepared to accept the thesis that the Napoleons in two different novels featuring protagonists of that name are existentially different as well.
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Our test case is provided by Henry Fielding's novel Shamela, a book published in 1741, which, as is generally alleged, refers, as nonfictive within the fictive world of Shamela, to a book published one year earlier, namely Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela.
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She enjoys reading nonfictive books that explore real-life adventures and scientific discoveries.
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The article presented a nonfictive analysis of the economic crisis based on data and expert interviews.
Synonyms
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Based on real facts and not on opinions or imagination
Free from personal feelings and based on facts
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Etymology
The word nonfictive starts with non- meaning 'not' and ends with fictive, like the familiar word fiction which means 'made up'. So nonfictive means 'not made up' and refers to things based on real events or facts.