notional
- adjective
- /ˈnoʊʃənl/
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- Because CDS trades are bilateral contracts that remain open until their expiration date, past transaction activity is reflected in gross notional amounts for an extended period even though the economic exposure may already have been unwound.
Examples
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Again, curtains, referenced four times in the casket scenes, are fundamental in creating a spatially imagined discrete room or area—a notional chapel of death.
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In her notional vision of the future, everyone lived in harmony and technology solved all problems.
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We're not just looking for some sort of notional characteristic, some quality that we can say they all have in common.
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Table 7 shows the aggregate gross notional amounts of CDS protection that were bought and sold in 2012.
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Seriously: the Victorian concept of 'notional' describes an inanimate object that "demands attention and exercises power over those people to whom it appeals."
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We want to move towards conceptual or notional thought, right, Begathen and Begathlika thought.
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Ultimately, this continuing spatialization stems from the notional division of art from society, which took place as part of the establishment of Western post-Enlightenment discourse.
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In other words, despite its broad acceptance as a doctrine that is consistent with the structure and text of the Constitution, it effectively is treated as simply a notional, not a realistic, constraint.
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It should be said that during your notional walk across London, while you will not encounter a bobby on the beat or leaning against a wall keeping an eye out like an NYPD cop, you will very likely see a squad car or two racing by, sirens screaming.
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The artist's notional creation was a vibrant world filled with fantastical creatures and landscapes.
Synonyms
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3.7
Having many new and different ideas
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8.0
Very strange and like something made up in dreams or stories
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6.0
Imaginative but not true or practical
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8.5
Not real and made up for a story or to hide the truth
Relating to making pictures or stories in the mind
Antonyms
How Imaginative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Notional comes from the same root as notion and the simple word note, which helps you keep ideas in your head. So a notional idea is imaginative or based on 'fantasy'—something you think about rather than something practical.