notional

Plural: notionals

Adjective Satellite

• not based on fact; unreal; - F.D.Roosevelt
  • "to create a notional world for oneself"
• not based on fact or investigation
  • "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"
• indulging in or influenced by fancy
  • "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
• being of the nature of a notion or concept
  • "to improve notional comprehension"
  • "a notional response to the question"

Adj

• Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
• Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
• Stubborn.
• Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
• Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
• Full of ideas or imaginings.

Noun

• A fake company used as a front in espionage.

Examples

• The idea that a rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo rather than ooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh is socially conventional even though its sound correspondence is at heart notional.
• This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.

Synonyms

conceptional, fanciful, ideational, imaginary, speculative, conceptual, ideal

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