Meaning

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

    Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, fanciful, ideal

    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.

    being of the nature of a notion or concept

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

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

    rein gedanklich, theoretisch, spekulativ

  3. (Maine)Stubborn.

  4. Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.

  5. Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount

  6. (informal)Full of ideas or imaginings.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. The contract assigned a notional value to the shares.

  2. Edna's freedom was mostly notional, since every choice was controlled by others.

  3. Citizens were granted notional rights, but every request to exercise them was denied.

  4. The regime maintained a notional parliament whose votes were written before the sessions began.

  5. Professor Usop used a notional example to explain the theory.

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
speculative, theoretical:

Origin

From notion + -al.

From notion + -al.

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Forms

more notional, most notional
Comparativemore notional Lesson
Superlativemost notional Lesson

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
being a notion:imaginaryB1
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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