How to pronounce“factive”in English
IPA/fæktæɪv/
Syllablesfac·tive
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Definitions of “factive”
adjective
Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
“Under this account, verbs like forget and remember are classified as factive (1) and verbs like think and believe as nonfactive (2).”
adjective
Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
noun
A factive verb.