Notional

Definition: Notional

Notional

Adjective

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".

3. Not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge".

4. Indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "notional" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1710. (references)

Synonyms: Notional

Imagination

Fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic.

Crosswords: Notional

Books

• A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories (reference)

• Next-Generation Attack Fighter: Design Tradeoffs and Notional System Concepts (reference)

• Notional Functional Exercises with the Mini-Check System (reference)

• Notional Syllabuses: A Taxonomy and Its Relevance to Foreign Language Curriculum Development (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Preliminary design model undergoing seakeeping tests at the David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland, circa 1947. This is an early version of the CVA-58 design, without catapult sponsons. Note the folding smokestacks in the "down" position, as they would have been during flight operations. Aircraft models on the flight deck appear to represent the F7U fighter and a notional heavy attack bomber. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "notional": notional amount ♦ notional assessment ♦ notional costs ♦ notional transaction. Additional references.

Albanian

që ka kuptim, joreal (aerial, aeriform, imaginary, insubstantial, off balance, unreal, unsubstantial), idesh, i imagjinuar (fancied, feigned, make believe, mythical). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفهومي (ideal), ‏نظري (abstract, academic, paper, perspective, theoretic, theoretical), ‏وهمي (airy, airy fairy, astral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dummy, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, paper, phantom, putative, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary), ‏ذو علاقة بفكرة ما, ‏خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, ideal, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, quixotic, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умозрителен (speculative), смислов (significant), спекулативен (speculative), въображаем (abstract, fancy, fictional, ideal, imaginary, mythical, mythological, phantom, unreal, visional, visionary), отвлечен (abstract, abstracted, abstractive, discrete, kidnaped, metaphysical, noetic, profound, raped, recondite), идеен (conceptual). (various references)

Chinese 

概念上. (various references)

Czech

spekulativní (speculative), pomyslný (imaginary), pojmový (conceptual), předpokládaný (assumed, hypothetical, presumed, reputed, supposed). (various references)

Danish

nominelt trin (notional step), nominel loenning (notional salary), teoretisk værdipapir (notional security), teoretisk skatteansættelse (notional assessment), teoretisk position (notional position), teoretisk enhed (notional unit), imaginaer omkostning (notional costs), fiktive hjemmehørende enheder,som udgår fra ikke-hjemmehørende enheder (notional resident units deriving from non-resident units), fiktiv transaktion (notional transaction, wash sale), fiktiv indtjening (notional earnings), fiktiv centralkurs (notional central rate), beregningsmæssig hovedstol (notional amount), anslået vægt (estimated weight, notional weight). (various references)

Dutch

virtuele risicopositie (notional position), virtuele positie (notional position), virtueel effect (notional security), theoretische salaristrap (notional step), theoretisch vergelijkbare marktprijs (notional market value), theoretisch salaris (notional salary), mede erin begrepen kosten (notional costs), impliciete kosten (notional costs), fictieve verdienste (notional earnings), fictieve spilkoers (notional central rate), fictieve liquidatie van de belastingen (notional assessment), fictief gewicht (estimated weight, notional weight), eronder begrepen kosten (notional costs), berekeningsgrondslag (base figure for calculation of pension, notional amount, qualifying salary), berekeningsbasis (notional amount). (various references)

Finnish

nimellismäärä (notional amount), laskennallinen määrä (notional amount), arvioverotus (apportionment, assessment, notional assessment). (various references)

French

notionnel, irréel, imaginaire, capricieux. (various references)

German

begrifflich (abstract, conceptual). (various references)

Greek 

φανταστικόσ (fancied, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, fictitious, imaginary, unreal, vaporous, visionary), εκκεντρικόσ (aberrational, bizarre, crackpot, cranky, eccentric, erratic, fogey, fogy, pixilated, screw-ball, wacky, weirdie), εννοιολογικόσ, ενδεικτικόσ (indicative, indicatory), θεωρητικόσ (doctrinaire, speculative, theoretical, theoretician, theorist). (various references)

Hebrew 

עיו� י (academic, speculative, theoretical). (various references)

Hungarian

fogalmi (conceptual). (various references)

Italian

speculativo (speculative), immaginario (fanciful, fictitious, fictive, imaginary, pretentious, visionary). (various references)

Manx

teaymagh (capricious, fickle, fitful, freakish, humoursome, moody, spasmodic, wavering, whimsical), smooinaghtagh (imaginable, pensive, serious, thinking, thoughtful), sheiltynagh (conjectural, fanciful, imaginable, imaginary, imaginative, presumable, putative, speculative, speculator, theoretic, theoretical, theorist, thinkable). (various references)

Pig Latin

otionalnay.(various references)

Portuguese

visionário (air-monger, castle-builder, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dreamer, fey, star-gazer, transcendental, viewy, visional, visionary), irreal (airy, artificial, dreamlike, hollow, insubstantial, phantasmal, shadowy, unreal, visional), intelectual (abstract, cogitative, highbrow, intellectual, mental, noetic, scholar), imaginário (aerial, airy, etherial, fancy, fantastic, fictional, of fantasy, overground, unreal), ideal (abstract, doss, dream, fancy, ideal, pattern), especulativo (speculative), caprichoso (arbitrary, cantankerous, caprice, capricious, crotchety, difficult, extravagant, faddist, fanciful, fitful, freakish, kittle, maggoty, peevish, skittish, temperamental, tidy, viewy, wayward, whim, whimsical). (various references)

Romanian

noţional, visãtor (air-monger, brooding, castle builder, day dreamer, dreamer, lotus eater, moony, pensive, starry eyed, thoughtful, visionary, wistful, wool gathering), teoretic (abstract, academic, academical, notionally, speculative, theoretical), speculativ (contemplative, speculative), semnificativ (considerable, eloquent, emphatic, expressive, graphic, graphical, important, knowing, meaning, meaningful, meaningfully, significant, significantly, significative, telling), romantic (romantic, romanticist), principal (broad, capital, Cardinal, chief, first, front, grand, head, high, leading, main, premier, primal, prime, principal, staple), imaginar (aerial, fairy, fancied, fanciful, imaginary, subjective, unreal, visional, visionary, would be), închipuit (conceited, false, fancied, fictitious, imaginary, overweening, unreal, visional). (various references)

Russian 

умозрительный (conceptual, speculative), воображаемый (fancied, fictitious, fictive, imaginable, imaginary, make believe, visional), значимый (meaningful, significant), познаваемый (cognizable, knowable, perceptible). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamišljen (abstracted, imaginary, pensive, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, thoughtful, wistful), pojmovni (conceptual, unintentional). (various references)

Spanish

imaginario (fancied, fanciful, imaginary, unreal, untrue), hipotético (hypothetic, hypothetical), especulativo (speculative, theoretical). (various references)

Swedish

semantisk (semantic), fiktiv (fictitious, imaginary, mythical), abstrakt (abstract, abstractly, transcendental). (various references)

Turkish

soyut (abstract, discrete, intangible, transcendental), kuramsal (abstract, academic, academical, doctrinaire, hypothetic, hypothetical, pure, speculative, theoretic, theoretical), kavramsal (conceptional, conceptive, conceptual), kaprisli (capricious, fanciful, fey, freakish, humoursome, wayward, whimsey, whimsical, whimsy), itibari (fictitious, fiduciary, nominal, titular, token), hayalperest (day dreamer, dreamer, dreamy, escapist, fanciful, illusionist, imaginative, quixotic, stargazer, vaporous, visionary), göreceli (relative). (various references)

Ukrainian

уявний (fairy, fancied, fictitious, imaginary, putative, virtual, visionary), умоглядний (speculative), смисловий, химерний (arabesque, artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, baroque, chimerical, conceited, fanciful, freakish, whimsical), значущий (meaning), з багатою фантазі�"ю, абстрактний (abstract, abstracted, abstractive, ideal, noetic, non-figurative, nonrepresentational, presentative), причепливий (cantankerous, captious, carping, catching, catchy, censorious, fault finding, fuddy-duddy, hypercritical, pernickety, persnickety, snappish, snorty), примхливий (arbitrary, capricious, choice, cranky, fanciful, fractious, freak, freakish, huffish, humorous, humous, inconstant, maggoty, naughty, notionate, skittish, whimsey, whimsical, whimsy), педантичний (donnish, dryasdust, meticulous, pedantic, pedantical, pernickety, persnickety, precise, priggish, prim, punctilious, square-toed), питущий (drunken, non-abstainer, vinous). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "notional": notionalities, notionality, notionally. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Notional" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: notiolal, Othonial. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: antlion.

-2 letters: anoint, latino, lotion, nation, notion, talion.

-3 letters: aloin, anion, niton, notal, onion, talon, tolan, tonal.

-4 letters: alit, alto, anil, anon, anti, into, iota, lain, lati, linn, lino, lint, lion, loan, loin, loon, loot, lota, loti, nail, naoi, noil, nolo, nona, noon, nota, olio, onto, tail, tain, tali, toil, tola, tool, toon.

-5 letters: ail.

+1 letter: noncoital.

+2 letters: conflation, elongation, insolation, langostino, nodulation, nonoptimal, notational, notionally, platooning.

+3 letters: cognitional, conditional, conflations, congelation, consolation, elongations, inoculation, insolations, langostinos, lionization, nodulations, nonhospital, nonnational, nonrational, nontropical, nonvolatile, notionality, pollination, sulfonation, unemotional.

+4 letters: anticolonial, antimonopoly, chlorination, colonisation, colonization, columniation, componential, conceptional, conciliation, conditionals, congelations, conglobating, conglobation, connectional, consolations, consultation, convectional, conventional, fluorination, foundational, halogenation, innovational, inoculations, inosculation, intonational, invocational, involutional, labanotation, lionizations, monofilament, noncommittal, noncompliant, noncustodial, noneditorial, nonemotional, nonfictional, nonhospitals, nonnationals, nonpolitical, nonsocialist, nonsteroidal, novelization, obnubilation, pollinations, prolongation, sulfonations.