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nonfactive

nonfactive adjective: not factive.

Adjective

nonfactive (not comparable)

  1. Not factive.
    • Under this account, verbs like forget and remember are classified as factive (1) and verbs like think and believe as nonfactive (2).2003, Petra Schulz, Factivity: Its Nature and Acquisition, de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 2

Origin of nonfactive

From non- + factive.

Questions about nonfactive

What does nonfactive mean?
Nonfactive means not factive.
What part of speech is nonfactive?
Nonfactive is an adjective.

Words near nonfactive in the dictionary

  1. nonfacing
  2. nonfacsimile
  3. nonfact
  4. nonfacticity
  5. nonfactious
  6. nonfactive
  7. nonfactor
  8. nonfactorial
  9. nonfactorizable
  10. nonfactors
  11. nonfactory

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