Meanings
adjectivefictionistic (not comparable)
- not comparableFictional.
The book belongs to the tale, story, or fictionistic class — a species of literature by far too common in the present day.
1855, The Wesleyan Methodist Association Magazine, volume 18, page 3971 more example
[…] applies to the constructs purported to represent material things, but not to the rest: it is realistic with respect to the former, and fictionistic with regard to the constructs of logic and pure mathematics.
1985, Mario Bunge, Philosophy of Science and Technology (issue 3, part 1, page 33)
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