Imaginary vs Fictitious - What's the difference?
imaginary | fictitious | Synonyms |
existing only in the imagination
* Addison
(mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
Imagination; fancy.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 324:
(mathematics) An imaginary quantity.
Not real; invented; contrived.
Fictitious is a antonym of imaginary.
Fictitious is a synonym of imaginary.
As adjectives the difference between imaginary and fictitious
is that imaginary is existing only in the imagination while fictitious is not real; invented; contrived.As a noun imaginary
is imagination; fancy.imaginary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
Derived terms
* imaginarily * imaginarinessNoun
(imaginaries)- By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
External links
* (Imaginary number)fictitious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- St. Mary Mead is a fictitious village from the books of Agatha Christie.