fictive
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French fictif.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fictive (comparative more fictive, superlative most fictive)
- Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
- 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema[1], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:
- Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
- Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented.
- Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]fictional, fanciful or invented
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Noun
[edit]fictive (plural fictives)
- (Internet slang) In claimed cases of dissociative identity disorder: an introject based on a character from a fictional work.
- 2022, "fictives get so much hate" (Reddit posting by user "lm2t") [2]
- I am constantly scared to text my friends while I front because a lot people were telling me that fictives especially from dsmp/genshin aren't valid. That makes me genuinely sad, I am afraid to receive any form of hate from my friends or even get fakeclaimed.
- 2022, "fictives get so much hate" (Reddit posting by user "lm2t") [2]
See also
[edit]French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fictive
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