factive
English
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -æktɪv
Etymology 1
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factive (not comparable)
- (grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
- (epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
Derived terms
editNoun
editfactive (plural factives)
Etymology 2
editFrom New Latin factīvus, from Latin facere (“to make”).
Adjective
editfactive (not comparable)
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