In a manner that is invented, imagined, or created through imagination; in a way characteristic of fiction.
Adverbial form of 'fictive' using the '-ly' suffix. Describes how something is done in a manner resembling or relating to fiction.
Authors write 'fictively' even when dealing with true events—they use novelistic techniques like dialogue, interior monologue, and scene-building that make truth read like fiction.
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