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fictive

adjectivenoun
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As an adjective, fictive means having the characteristics of fiction: fictional. As a noun, it means in claimed cases of dissociative identity disorder: an introject based on a character from a fictional work.

Meanings of fictive

5 meanings

adjective

  1. Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.

  2. Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented.

  3. Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal.

  4. Adopted in order to deceive

    “an assumed name”

    “an assumed cheerfulness”

    “a fictitious address”

    Similar: assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on, sham

noun

  1. internet slangIn claimed cases of dissociative identity disorder: an introject based on a character from a fictional work.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

All synonyms for fictive →
adjective: adopted in order to deceive
assumedfalsefictitiouspretendedput onsham

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