fictive
pronunciation
How to pronounce fictive in British English:
UK ['fɪktɪv]
How to pronounce fictive in American English:
US ['fɪktɪv]
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- Adjective:
- adopted in order to deceive
- capable of imaginative creation
Word Origin
- fictive (adj.)
- 1610s, "formed by imagination," from French fictif, from stem of Latin fictio (see fiction). Earlier as "convincingly deceptive" (late 15c.). Related: Fictively.
Example
- 1. All characters in this book are fictive .
- 2. On creating personality in fictive world .
- 3. The writer has fictive talent .
- 4. Luke is even more self-consciously literary and fictive than matthew in his crucifixion scene .
- 5. One might even say that the fictive marcel conjures up another version of proust - the meta-fictive proust , at this point .