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nonfactive

adj

Etymology

From non- + factive.

  1. derived from facere — “to make”
  2. borrowed from factīvus
  3. prefixed as nonfactive — “non + factive”

Definitions

  1. Not factive.

    • Under this account, verbs like forget and remember are classified as factive (1) and verbs like think and believe as nonfactive (2).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonfactive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA