1. fictive - Noun
2. fictive - Adjective
3. fictive - Adjective Satellite
Feigned; counterfeit.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlthough to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. Leonhard Euler
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. Jacques Lacan
This will make widows wince. But fictive things Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince. Wallace Stevens
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones. David Brin
A fictive covering Weaves always glistening from the heart and mind. Wallace Stevens
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling. A. S. Byatt