Hypertext Webster Gateway: "notional"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Notional \No"tion*al\, a.
1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing
abstract conceptions.
2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.
Discourses of speculative and notional things.
--Evelyn.
3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical;
fanciful; as, a notional man.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
notional
adj 1: (grammar) 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" [syn: {fanciful}, {imaginary},
{imagined}]
3: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of
cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative
knowledge" [syn: {speculative}]
4: indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all
the notional vagaries of childhood" [syn: {fanciful}]
5: being or of the nature of a notion or concept; "a plan
abstract and conceptional"; "to improve notional
comprehension"; "a notional response to the question"
[syn: {conceptional}, {ideational}]
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