notional

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊʃənəl/ / /ˈnoʊʃənəl/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English notion Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English notional From notion + -al.

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.”
Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
“This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.”
Stubborn.
Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
“Gold traded at $909.00 an ounce, up 0.2 percent from New York's notional close of $906.65 on Wednesday.”
“Under the agreements, Harvard paid the banks fixed interest rates on a total notional amount of $3.52 billion in exchange for floating-rate payments from them.”
Full of ideas or imaginings.
“She knew what Pete would say if she told him about it — he would say she was getting notional; and she did not want Pete to think of her as a notional woman. Notional women sometimes had a hard time marrying unless they had money.”

noun

A fake company used as a front in espionage.
“Numerous CIA notionals, created to counter Communist organizations in Western Europe during the Cold War years, remain active and unrevealed.”