notional

Adjective

• being of the nature of a notion or concept
  • a plan abstract and conceptional
    
  • to improve notional comprehension
    
  • a notional response to the question
    

• indulging in or influenced by fancy
  • a fanciful mind
    
  • all the notional vagaries of childhood
    

• not based on fact or investigation
  • a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs
    
  • speculative knowledge
    

• not based on fact; unreal
  • the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties- F.D.Roosevelt
    
  • a small child's imaginary friends
    
  • to create a notional world for oneself
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  conceptional , ideational , fanciful , speculative , imaginary