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Dictionary definition · notional

adjective

  1. not based on fact; existing only in the imagination"the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"
  2. not based on fact or investigation"a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"
  3. indulging in or influenced by fancy"a fanciful mind"
  4. being of the nature of a notion or concept"a plan abstract and conceptional"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).