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fictive /ˈfɪktɪv /adjective1Created by the imagination: the novel’s fictive universe...- It helps to create a fictive space in which this endless journey acquires mythic dimensions.
- This political ventriloquism allows the writers ‘both a community and a coherent sense of self - however fictive or imaginative - from which to act and write’.
- For when Duncan sought out the life of the imagination motivated by the claims of love, and imagined a fictive figure of himself, he proclaimed a poetry of beginnings.
1.1Relating to the writing of fiction: the obviously fictive genres, poetry, drama and the novel...- In their fictive and non-fictive writings, they provided numerous, often very vivid, accounts of sexual abuse.
- There will be one paper on each of the fictive genres, each essay 3-5 pages in length, with the library or the Internet backing up your insights.
Derivativesfictiveness noun ...- It is precisely this play between fictiveness and fact so characteristic of feature film (in comparison to documentary film, docudrama, or cinema verite) which makes the genre intriguing to Davis.
- Some cinquecento writers reflected on the fictiveness, pernicious sensuality, and compulsive force of the simulacrum, as it was identified in a long tradition stretching from late antiquity to the Reformation.
- Woodcock analyses the fictiveness of fairy stories in Spenser's world, basing his approach on recent studies of the ontology of witches.
OriginEarly 17th century (but rare before the 19th century): from French fictif, -ive or medieval Latin fictivus, from Latin fingere 'contrive, form'. |