The phrase "a type of fictitious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that belongs to a category of fictional or imaginary entities or concepts.
Example: "The novel presents a type of fictitious creature that captivates the reader's imagination."
Alternatives: "a kind of imaginary" or "a form of fictional".
We create eight types of fictitious applicants: a Moroccan and a native, male and female, candidates who do not provide information about their socioeconomic status, and four more candidates (Moroccan and native, male and female) with information about their occupations.
We created three types of fictitious couples one heterosexual, one gay, and one lesbian and sent emails to schools in which the couples' sexual orientation was explicit.
We even made up a story about a fictitious type of tool — a "stagnar" — and provided information about what it was used for and what it typically looked like.
The study asked 1,183 people to read an article about a fictitious type of nanotechnology, a scientific subject chosen because most people know little about it and have no strong ideological views, said Dietram Scheufele, one of the researchers.
Ginny attended Georgetown University where she studied government and anthropology and where she helped create a fictitious type of cheese (xanadu), which still circulates as real throughout the Internet.
This naturally sparked a litany of fictitious headlines.
Although the Internet provides an excellent infrastructure for combinatorial auctions, we must consider the possibility of a new type of cheating, i.e., an agent tries to profit from submitting several bids under fictitious names (false-name bids).
Articles were classified according to three characteristics: (i) their objectives, (ii) the study design (single- vs. multi-site), (iii) the type of system assessed (fictitious vs. real).
In particular, they provide the basis for a consistent realist ontology of fictitious objects.
