fictive

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or able to engage in imaginative invention.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or being fiction; fictional.
  3. adjective Not genuine; sham.

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  • Not Now 'Derrida claims that' literature produces its referent as a fictive or fabulous referent, which is itself dependent on the possibility of archivising ... '. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Whatever we call these - whether imaginations or not, indeed you mean to pronounce the pandoramas of 'fictive' dramas: analogic handouts likely to enrich what could be useful should we care to learn. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • The Sautrântika rejected this: something either really exists or is merely fictive, there is no middle ground. —  Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
  • Madhyamaka, it seems, would be happy to admit that both duration and the instant are fictive, and that the present is as much a prapañca as the past and the future. —  Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
  • As an author you subject your own story, like your fictive heroes, to the only law that is sacred to you, that of art. —  GreenCine Daily
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  1. = French fictif, from Latin as if *fictivus, from fictus, past participle of fingere, form, feign: see fiction.
 

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