Notional

French Meaning

notionnel

imaginaire

irréel

capricieux

English Meaning

  1. Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
  2. Speculative or theoretical.
  3. Linguistics Conveying an idea of a thing or of an action; having full lexical meaning as distinguished from relational meaning. The word did is notional in We did the work and relational in We did not agree.