NOTIONAL

1. [s] being (or being of the nature of) a notion or concept; "a plan abstract and conceptional"; "to improve notional comprehension"; "a notional response to the question"

2. [s] indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"

3. [s] not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"

4. [s] not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child''s imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

5. [a] having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic category; "sex is a notional category; gender is a syntactic one"

similar words

1. [a] abstract

2. [a] creative

3. [a] originative

4. [a] theoretical

5. [a] theoretic

6. [a] unreal