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Factious vs Factive - What's the difference?

factious | factive |

As adjectives the difference between factious and factive

is that factious is of, pertaining to, or caused by factions while factive is (linguistics|of a verb) licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.

factious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or caused by factions.
  • Given to or characterized by discordance or insubordination.

    • Derived terms

    * factiousness noun * factiously adverb

    References

    See also

    * factitious

    factive

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (linguistics, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.
    • You can't say he "discovered" that the moon is made of green cheese, because "discover" is a factive verb and the moon isn't made of green cheese.
  • (epistemology, of a knowing agent) which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.