fictive

• “Her novel The Sweetest Dream (2001) is a stand-alone sequel in fictive form.”

  The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Bio-bibliography

• “He described the excited states of the liquid by the motion of certain fictive particles called quasiparticles.”

  Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 - Presentation Speech

• “Painting is, in other words, a fictive art, and it is often most shamelessly fictional when masquerading as unembellished Realism.”

  John Koch's Best Work Is With Naked Subjects

• “It is particularly critical of the celebrated "Autobiography of Malcolm X," now a staple of college reading lists, which was written with Alex Haley and which Mr. Marable described as "fictive.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “However, for as many life stages and changes as may arise, one's immediate family has the opportunity to extend non-relative or "fictive" kinship ties through deliberate selection.”

  Hey Compadre

• “This remark might indicate that Bacon finds the same doctrinal problem with the “esse habitudinis” that he finds with the “esse habituale” (i.e., it introduces a foil for some kind of fictive being), but we cannot be certain of this, since he never returned to this topic in the Compendium.”

  Richard the Sophister

• “On a tangential note, I can just about see the notion of fictive poetry, cause narrative started out in verse form, after all; and there are works like Tony Harrison’s “Prometheus” which fuse poetry and drama pretty neatly.”

  War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…

• “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

• “In later years, Galeano turned to fiction and "fictive" histories.”

  Darwiniana

• “fictive" does not mean unreal or ineffective - as we are currently experiencing, the effects of delirious financial capital flows are all too material and evident.”

  Warren Ellis

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