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Notional   Listen
adjective
Notional  adj.  
1.
Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.
2.
Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical. "Discourses of speculative and notional things."
3.
Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful; as, a notional man.





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"Notional" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bethlehem but to know that He is born in us. It is vastly more important to know experimentally that we are crucified with Christ than to know historically that He died in Jerusalem many years ago, and to feel Jesus Christ risen again within you is far more operative than to have "a notional knowledge" that He rose on the third day. "When thou begins to finde and know not merely that He was conceived in the womb of a virgin, but that thou art that virgin and that He is more truly and spiritually, and yet as really, conceived in thy heart so that thou feelest the Babe ...
— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones
... eyelids, intimating that she perfectly understood his thoughts, said, in a tone which put an end to the discussion, "Excuse me, but I shall certainly give the seance. I am much obliged for your interest in me; but I am rather notional about keeping my promises, and it is a peculiarity in which my friends have to indulge in. I daresay I shall be none the worse ...
— Miss Ludington's Sister • Edward Bellamy
... weeks, and often of months. If every scene took place in a studio, where artificial lights could be used, the filming could go on every day the actors were on hand, or whenever the director felt like working them and the camera men. Often in a studio, even, the director will be notional—"temperamental," he might call it—and let a day go by, and again the glare of the powerful lights may so affect the eyes of the players that they have to rest, and so time is lost ...
— The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays - Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm • Laura Lee Hope


Words linked to "Notional" :   theoretic, abstract, originative, creative, theoretical, speculative, unreal


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