1
: not genuine : feigned
2
: of, relating to, or capable of imaginative creation
fictively
adverb
fictiveness
noun
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What to do when accountability has never felt more fictive?
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Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Then there are the books that are fictive, existing only within other books.
—Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
Events remain piercingly actual and threatening in their effects on real people, while also being duplicated in a fictive system that shows and spoofs them at the same time.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Tidy narratives of progress—always somewhat fictive, useful to journalists and publicists more than to consumers and artists—started to degrade.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
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Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Then there are the books that are fictive, existing only within other books.
—Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
Events remain piercingly actual and threatening in their effects on real people, while also being duplicated in a fictive system that shows and spoofs them at the same time.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Tidy narratives of progress—always somewhat fictive, useful to journalists and publicists more than to consumers and artists—started to degrade.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Fictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fictive. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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