fictive
/ˈfɪktɪv/
fictive adjective: having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
Adjective
fictive (comparative more fictive, superlative most fictive)
- Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
- 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...2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25
- Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented.
- Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal.
Noun
fictive (plural fictives)
- 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.
- the fictives -- These are the characters from the stories for whom the Cafe was created, and thus are the most common barflies there. If you watched "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," you might get an idea of what fictives are like "off duty." They're like cartoon characters; they can't really die, it only...1999, " Who ARE these people/things?" (FAQ from website "Subreality Central") https://web.archive.org/web/19990830153823/http://www.subreality.com/sc.htm
- On the matter of “fictives,” or members of systems who share identities with characters from fictional media, my hypothesis is that their identities are subconscious psychological connections to those characters. I don’t believe that the characters literally jumped from their “source” to someone...2011, "Plurality for Skeptics" (FAQ from website "Ex Uno Plures") https://www.exunoplures.org/main/articles/medicalisation/skeptics/
fictive meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
fictive in Urdu
- افسانوی, بناوٹی, خیالی
fictive in Malayalam
- fictional, fanciful or invented
- സാങ്കൽപ്പിക sāṅkalppika
Examples of fictive in a sentence
- Even natively fictive characters can be used as a commentary on real-life politicians such as Donald Trump.
- Most commonly, people attempt to improve household status through the establishment of fictive kin links.
- He is hailed by postmodernists for his fictive propositions and counterlives.
Forms of fictive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more fictive |
| superlative | most fictive |
| Noun | |
| plural | fictives |
Origin of fictive
Borrowed from Middle French fictif.
Words formed from fictive
Words that rhyme with fictive
Questions about fictive
- What does fictive mean?
- Fictive means having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
- What is fictive in Urdu?
- Fictive in Urdu is افسانوی, بناوٹی, خیالی. See Fictive meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is fictive?
- Fictive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce fictive?
- Fictive is pronounced /ˈfɪktɪv/.
Words near fictive in the dictionary
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