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nonfactual

nonfactual

1 6.7
Information that is not true or not based on facts
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈfæktʃuəl/
translation icon : no factual
  • The presentation included several nonfactual statements that misrepresented the research findings.

Examples

  • 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

    Blog text (8)
  • 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.

  • Many conspiracy theories are based on nonfactual assumptions rather than evidence.

Synonyms

counterfactual
vsnonfactual
3 9.4

Describing a situation that did not happen but could have

is broader, covering anything not based on facts rather than only imagined opposites
unfactual
vsnonfactual
1 6.1

Not based on facts and therefore not true

is neutral about truth and simply lacks support from facts

Antonyms

112 3.4

Based on real facts and not on opinions or imagination

How Factual

true
1.0
factual
112 3.4
nonfactual
1 6.7
false
715 1.0

Surface Forms

nonfactual positive

Morphology

nonfactual = factual (transparent) = non + factual

The negative prefix 'non-' is productively applied to the adjective 'factual' to yield 'not factual', so the meaning is directly derivable.

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'.