factive
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -æktɪv
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
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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[edit]
Noun[edit]
factive (plural factives)
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
factive (not comparable)