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prefactual

adj

Etymology

From pre- + factual.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-✻
  2. derived from factum
  3. derived from fact
  4. suffixed as factual — “fact + ual”
  5. prefixed as prefactual — “pre + factual”

Definitions

  1. prior to facts being established

    • A number of decision making theories also posit a prominent role for anticipated emotions, especially in terms of anticipated regret which might arise from prefactual comparisons before making a decision […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prefactual. 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