imaginary

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

abstract ideas
abstractHappiness, faith, and confidence are abstract qualities.
conceptualThe introduction lays out a conceptual framework for the book.
notionalThere is a notional improvement in air quality that cannot be demonstrated.
theoreticalVitamin supplements can give a theoretical boost to health.

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epistemologically
epistemology
essentialism
existential
existentialism
nihilistic
non-deterministic
non-philosophical
ontological
ontologically
spatiotemporally
superorganic
supersensible
syllogism
syllogistic

notional | Business English

notional
adjective
uk /ˈnəʊʃənəl/us
existing only as an idea, or as an approximate amount:
Diamonds only retain their notional value through strict control of the market.
Almost everyone will have to pay a higher tax bill than the notional amount suggested by the government.
They are converting debt into enough shares at a notional 8.6p each to give them 60% of the equity.

Examples of notional

notional
Monocular observation through a physical or even notional intersecting plane is thus conceived as relatively 'constructed' by the geometric formula.
In notional accounts schemes, the notional interest rate applied to notional capital works in exactly the same way.
The justification for the plural concord here can also be reinforced by notional concord ('only his party members agree with him').
The plural concord here may also be reinforced by notional concord, since board, as a collective noun, can be notionally plural.
The monthly figures were adjusted to notional months of equal duration.
Unlike in the notional defined contribution system, however, capitalization occurs at the market interest rate, as contributions are typically invested in private assets.
This notional approach is briefly explained and then an example in tactical behaviors is presented.
In the case of reduction in yield, the impact of charges is measured in terms of notional loss of returns vis-a'-vis a no-fee scenario.
While it is considered to be external to the notional predicate, the syntactic category of the notional predicate appears to be subject to cross-linguistic variation.
In addition, there are ditransitive verbs that appear to be able to incorporate their notional direct object.
What features does this book attribute to "fundamentalism" and to notional instances of it?
I tell students about the difference between notional and effective demand, and about sticky prices.
To a degree, respectable culture flowed across notional ethnic divides.
In other words, the pension would be simply equal to the notional capital accumulated in the individual account divided by the life expectancy at retirement.
Apart from grammatical structures, some kinds of words tend to trigger notional rather than formal agreement.
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