notional.
Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
Meaning & usage
Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
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.
Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
Stubborn.
Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
Full of ideas or imaginings.
Where this word comes from
From notion + -al.
A fake company used as a front in espionage.
Where this word comes from
From notion + -al.
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