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Fictitious vs Chimerical - What's the difference?

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Fictitious is a related term of chimerical.


As adjectives the difference between fictitious and chimerical

is that fictitious is not real; invented; contrived while chimerical is of or pertaining to a chimera.

fictitious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not real; invented; contrived.
    • St. Mary Mead is a fictitious village from the books of Agatha Christie.

    Synonyms

    * imaginary, invented, contrived, fictive

    chimerical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a chimera.
  • Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
  • * 1877 ,
    • "Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical , are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
    a chimerical goal
  • Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
  • Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.

    • Derived terms

    * chimerically