National vs Notional - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between national and notional

is that national is of or having to do with a nation while notional is of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.

is a subject of a nation.

(en adjective)

Of or having to do with a nation.

(by extension) Of or having to do with a country (sovereign state).

Import tariffs were raised for the national interest.

See nation'' for notes regarding the usage of ''national to refer to the UK and its member states.

* international * nationally * nationalistic

(en noun)

A subject of a nation.

The diplomats were advised not to interact with any foreign nationals except on official duty.

(usually, in the plural) A tournament in which participants from all over the nation compete.

After winning the regional tournament, the team advanced to the nationals .

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(en adjective)

Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.

Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.

This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.

(linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.

(finance) (Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount)

* notionality * notionally