Fictive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈfɪktɪv/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Fictive is an adjective meaning Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
Meaning
Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
More Meanings
- Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented.
- Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal.
- (Internet slang, multiplicity slang, living character subculture) A headmate who is in some way a character from a fictional work, whether in inspiration, form, or identity. Originally popularized with soulbonds, and also used for fictional introjects and dissociative identity disorder.
Example Sentences
Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
Word Forms
- fictives
Synonyms for fictive
Depending on context, synonyms include sham, counterfeit, fictitious, creative, assumed, false.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include imitative, fictitious, creative, originative, assumed, pretended.
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