Definition of "fictive" [fic•tive]

• Of, relating to, or able to engage in imaginative invention. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or being fiction; fictional. (adjective)
• Not genuine; sham. (adjective)

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• "Her novel The Sweetest Dream (2001) is a stand-alone sequel in fictive form."
• "He described the excited states of the liquid by the motion of certain fictive particles called quasiparticles."
• "Painting is, in other words, a fictive art, and it is often most shamelessly fictional when masquerading as unembellished Realism."