The word "fictive" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is invented or imaginary, often in the context of literature or storytelling.
Example: "The fictive world created by the author captivated readers with its intricate details."
Alternatives: "Imaginary" or "Invented."
The writer himself has even spent time as a film critic and his reviews for the London Evening Standard merely showed how cinema failed to live up to his own florid fictive universes.
The South Vietnamese government remained weak, corrupt, factionalised, and essentially fictive, and you cannot have a real army without a real government.More importantly, the South Vietnamese government was a fictive, corrupt shell not because America had not given it enough aid, but in part because we had given it too much.
In a speech delivered at the Tory party conference in October, the chancellor painted a sympathetic portrait of a fictive blue-collar striver, rising early for work only to see the drawn curtains of his neighbour, "sleeping off a life on benefits".
Several times a week, millions of Britons in comfortable homes settle down to watch "Eastenders", a long-running soap opera, which chronicles the gritty urban subsistence and indomitable solidarity of a fictive East End community.
Mr Singh's defence, that to let Pakistan air fictive grievances was a tribute to Indian magnanimity and strength, looked weak.Mr Singh may have blundered.
Whether on the dole ("on sabbatical" as Léon puts it) or performing a fictive employment, they still attend PR parties.
The tale of German and British soldiers playing football in No Man's Land to celebrate Christmas in 1914 is an immortal (if perhaps fictive) example.But sometimes these comparisons are more subtle.
Sterne is explicit about the influence of Lockean psychology on his writing, and the book, fascinated with the fictive energies of the imagination, is filled with characters reinventing or mythologizing the conditions of their own lives.
Known as the fictive temperature, (Tf 1 is the temperature at which the liquid structure is frozen into the glassy state.
(Tf 2 represents the fictive temperature of the glass formed by fast cooling.
