Factish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Factish is an adjective meaning Similar to facts, but not necessarily factual; fact-like.
Meaning
Similar to facts, but not necessarily factual; fact-like.
More Meanings
- Focused on fact rather than reason or speculation.
- (sociology) A scientific "fact" whose power is believed in, but which is ultimately a construction, just as fetishes are constructions believed to hold spiritual powers.
Example Sentences
And as Miller writes of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, its real bits are 'factish' rather than 'factual.'
There is no doubt a strong tendency to revolt against abstract reasoning. Human nature has a strong “factish” element in it.
Factishes fit well the emergent and networked vision of the world, because they stress the historical quality with which every acting entity is endowed with.
This factish, leftish derivation of the old dictum, “Art is art precisely in that it is not Nature,” by wrongly interpreting the word Nature, utterly betrayed the master's poetic sense.
Word Forms
- factishes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include factical, fictionish, facty, fabulous, factitive, fabled.
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