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  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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