fictive

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synonyms for fictive

On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fictive, such as: fabricated, fanciful, fictional, imaginary, imagined, and invented.

How to use fictive in a sentence

  • She made even the true seem fictive, while Miriam's effort was to make the fictive true.

    The Tragic Muse | Henry James
  • Its grossness must be transposed, as it were, to a fictive scale, a scale of fainter tints and generalized signs.

    Picture and Text | Henry James
  • Of this part of the Gospel, Loisy says, 'rien n'est plus arbitraire comme exégèse, ni plus faible comme narration fictive.'

    Outspoken Essays | William Ralph Inge
  • I question if there is another fictive utterance to surpass this one in authenticity.

    Browning's Heroines | Ethel Colburn Mayne
  • I was for the time entirely the historian, with little time to dream of the fictive material with which my memory was filled.

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