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Fictive vs Fictiveness - What's the difference?

fictive | fictiveness |

As an adjective fictive

is fictional, unreal, fanciful or invented.

As a noun fictiveness is

the quality of being fictive.

fictive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • fictional, unreal, fanciful or invented

    • Derived terms

    * fictive kin

    See also

    * fictitious ----

    fictiveness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being fictive.
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    • , passage=Though he loved Jorge Luis Borges, he didn’t in his own work go in for Borgesian mirror games, and he was free from the postmodern anxiety about the fictiveness of fiction, the unreliability of language. }}