fictive.

1. Made or represented through imagination or fiction rather than direct factual description.

2. Based on an acknowledged social relationship rather than biological descent or marriage.

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Words that belong together

• a fictive world
• a fictive voice

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The fictive voice preserved details the factual chronology could not accommodate.

She made the town a fictive world without pretending it had no historical source.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more fictive; superlative most fictive where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.