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fictive

adjective as in fictitious

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Anything else is an “entirely fictive alternate reality” where people who disagree with him “neurotically retreat.”

My goal (not my achievement, my goal) was to work like Joan Didion in a fictive realm.

And there is another, unexpected reason a series like NYC Prep seems more fictive than genuine.

She made even the true seem fictive, while Miriam's effort was to make the fictive true.

Its grossness must be transposed, as it were, to a fictive scale, a scale of fainter tints and generalized signs.

Of this part of the Gospel, Loisy says, 'rien n'est plus arbitraire comme exégèse, ni plus faible comme narration fictive.'

I question if there is another fictive utterance to surpass this one in authenticity.

I was for the time entirely the historian, with little time to dream of the fictive material with which my memory was filled.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fictive, such as: fabricated, fanciful, fictional, imaginary, imagined, and invented.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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