notional

英['nəʊʃ(ə)n(ə)l] 美['noʃənl]

1. having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic category;

"sex is a notional category; gender is a syntactic one"

2. 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"

3. not based on fact or investigation;

"a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"

"speculative knowledge"

4. indulging in or influenced by fancy;

"a fanciful mind"

"all the notional vagaries of childhood"

5. 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"