factive

== English == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -æktɪv === Etymology 1 === From fact +‎ -ive. ==== Adjective ==== factive (not comparable) (grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true. Antonyms: nonfactive, contrafactive Coordinate terms: factual, counterfactual (epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== factive (plural factives) (grammar) A factive verb. === Etymology 2 === From New Latin factīvus, from Latin facere (“to make”). ==== Adjective ==== factive (not comparable) (obsolete) Making; creative.