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Tentative vs Notional - What's the difference?

tentative | notional |

As adjectives the difference between tentative and notional

is that tentative is of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental while notional is of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.

As a noun tentative

is a trial; an experiment.

tentative

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A trial; an experiment.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
  • Uncertain; subject to future change.
  • Derived terms

    * tentativeness

    Anagrams

    * attentive ----

    notional

    English

    Adjective

    (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)
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  • Derived terms

    * notionality * notionally