: of, relating to, or capable of imaginative creation
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: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of fiction: fictional
fictivelyadverb
fictivenessnoun
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebYet there is a still deeper bond that keeps this unhappy couple — and other fictive pairs much like them — together. Fred Schruers, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022 Maud Newton has a keen appreciation for the fictive quality of stories about ancestry. Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022 Few couples typify this dynamic as acutely as the fictive Mia and Marcus of Love Life season 2, played by Williams and the charmingly neurotic William Jackson Harper. Shamira Ibrahim, Essence, 6 Apr. 2022 Ingrid Yang is a hapless 29-year-old PhD candidate at a small university in Massachusetts, floundering on a dissertation about the school’s most famous former professor, the fictive, late Chinese poet Xiao-Wen Chou.Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022 Sometimes the leads barely seem to be in the same movie, let alone the same fictive family. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022 Gone are the fictive characters: Instead, the sea itself becomes a complicated protagonist in a cosmic adventure. Danny Heitman, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022 Near-Death Experience From An Inventory of Losses, a collection of fictive essays that will be published next month by New Directions. Jackie Smith, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 The script by veteran documentarian Sunyundukov (making a relatively rare foray into fictive cinema) aims for a fadeout more resilient and vaguely inspirational than the downbeat book. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021 See More
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Medieval Latin fictīvus "imaginative, imaginary," from Latin fictus, past participle of fingere "to mold, fashion, make a likeness of, pretend to be" + -īvus-ive — more at feign