1
: not genuine : feigned
2
: of, relating to, or capable of imaginative creation
fictively
adverb
fictiveness
noun
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Beef liver may not be a gladiator-crushing lion ready to dethrone kale in some fictive nutritional coliseum.
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Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
The history bestows legitimacy, which is destabilized because so much of the history is fictive.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Populism ignores very real and differentiated social problems and cuts across them with a fictive target, a target that simultaneously satisfies all, and none, of these problems.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
The curator, Reid Byers, presents 100 books — unfinished, fictive (books existing in other novels and dramas) and lost — painstakingly created and recreated.
—New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
The history bestows legitimacy, which is destabilized because so much of the history is fictive.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Populism ignores very real and differentiated social problems and cuts across them with a fictive target, a target that simultaneously satisfies all, and none, of these problems.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
The curator, Reid Byers, presents 100 books — unfinished, fictive (books existing in other novels and dramas) and lost — painstakingly created and recreated.
—New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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“Fictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fictive. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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