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notionally
Variant of notional
adjective
- of, expressing, or consisting of notions, or concepts
- imaginary; not actual: to inhabit a notional world
- ☆ having visionary ideas; given to whims; fanciful
- Gram. having full lexical, as distinguished from relational, meaning: “have” is notional in “we have a problem” and relational in “we have solved a problem”
Related Forms:
- notionally adverb
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