1
[ adjective ] adopted in order to deceive

Examples

"an assumed name" "an assumed cheerfulness" "a fictitious address" "fictive sympathy" "a pretended interest" "a put-on childish voice" "sham modesty"

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

All this expands the oscillation between surface and depth so_as to encompass fictive space in_front of the surface as_well_as behind it .

Related terms

counterfeit

2
[ adjective ] capable of imaginative creation

Examples

"fictive talent"

Related terms

creative

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