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   notional

   /ˈnəʊʃən(ə)l/

   adjective

   • 1. existing as or based on a suggestion, estimate, or theory; not existing in reality: "notional budgets for hospital and community health services"
   • 2. denoting or relating to an approach to grammar which is dependent on the definition of terminology (e.g. ‘a verb is a doing word’) as opposed to identification of structures and processes.
   • 3. (in language teaching) denoting or relating to a syllabus that aims to develop communicative competence.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the Latin sense): from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin notionalis ‘relating to an idea’, from notio(n-) ‘idea’ (see notion).

   Derivatives

   • 1. notionally adverb

   Scrabble Points: 8

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