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fictionistic

fictionistic adjective: fictional.

Adjective

fictionistic (not comparable)

  1. Fictional.
    • The book belongs to the tale, story, or fictionistic class — a species of literature by far too common in the present day.1855, The Wesleyan Methodist Association Magazine, volume 18, page 397
    • […] applies to the constructs purported to represent material things, but not to the rest: it is realistic with respect to the former, and fictionistic with regard to the constructs of logic and pure mathematics.1985, Mario Bunge, Philosophy of Science and Technology (issue 3, part 1, page 33)

Questions about fictionistic

What does fictionistic mean?
Fictionistic means fictional.
What part of speech is fictionistic?
Fictionistic is an adjective.

Words near fictionistic in the dictionary

  1. fictionised
  2. fictionises
  3. fictionish
  4. fictionising
  5. fictionist
  6. fictionistic
  7. fictionists
  8. fictionization
  9. fictionizations
  10. fictionize
  11. fictionized

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