notional
/ˈnoʊʃənəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
adj
Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "He was now receiving reports of a second suspect Anglo Leasing deal, this time for the notional provision of a state-of-the-art police forensic laboratory."
- "This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture."
- "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."
Etymology
From notion + -al.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnoʊʃənəl/
- British English: /ˈnəʊʃənəl/