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Notional

//ˈnoʊʃənəl// adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.

    "Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, fanciful, ideal"

  2. 2
    Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.

    "This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture."

  3. 3
    Stubborn. Maine
  4. 4
    Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
  5. 5
    Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount

    "Gold traded at $909.00 an ounce, up 0.2 percent from New York's notional close of $906.65 on Wednesday."

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  1. 6
    Full of ideas or imaginings. informal

    "She knew what Pete would say if she told him about it — he would say she was getting notional; and she did not want Pete to think of her as a notional woman. Notional women sometimes had a hard time marrying unless they had money."

Adjective
  1. 1
    being of the nature of a notion or concept wordnet
  2. 2
    indulging in or influenced by fancy wordnet
  3. 3
    not based on fact or investigation wordnet
  4. 4
    not based on fact; existing only in the imagination wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A fake company used as a front in espionage.

    "Numerous CIA notionals, created to counter Communist organizations in Western Europe during the Cold War years, remain active and unrevealed."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From notion + -al.

Etymology 2

From notion + -al.

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