fictive

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We next enter a fictive chapel, with the Latin rite being celebrated by a set of crimson vestments and an altar cloth, made in Paris in 1619 and given by Louis XIII.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

We’re in the visual vicinity of Sleeping Beauty’s fictive castle, which was mostly inspired by Neuschwanstein, an actual 19th-century castle in the Bavarian Alps.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2022

Ingrid Yang is a hapless 29-year-old PhD candidate at a small university in Massachusetts, floundering on a dissertation about the school’s most famous former professor, the fictive, late Chinese poet Xiao-Wen Chou.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

Steven Hyman, former head of the NIMH, called them fictive diagnostic categories.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2022

Trade may seem a very pragmatic activity, one that needs no fictive basis.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari