fictive

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French fictif.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪktɪv/
• Rhymes: -ɪktɪv

Adjective

fictive (comparative more fictive, superlative most fictive)

1. Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
   • 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema‎^[1], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:

     Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.

2. Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented.
3. Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal.

Derived terms

• fictive kin

Translations

fictional, fanciful or invented

• Danish: fiktiv (da)
• Finnish: kuvitteellinen (fi), fiktiivinen (fi)
• French: fictif (fr)
• German: fiktiv (de)
• Hungarian: kitalált (hu), fiktív (hu)
• Malayalam: സാങ്കൽപ്പിക (sāṅkalppika)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fiktiv

  Nynorsk: fiktiv

• Polish: fikcyjny (pl)
• Swedish: fiktiv (sv)
• Ukrainian: фікти́вний (fiktývnyj)

Noun

fictive (plural fictives)

1. (Internet slang) In claimed cases of dissociative identity disorder: an introject based on a character from a fictional work.
   • 2022, "fictives get so much hate" (Reddit posting by user "lm2t") [2]

     I am constantly scared to text my friends while I front because a lot people were telling me that fictives especially from dsmp/genshin aren't valid. That makes me genuinely sad, I am afraid to receive any form of hate from my friends or even get fakeclaimed.

See also

• fictitious

French

Adjective

fictive

1. feminine singular of fictif