Difference between Notional and Imaginary

What is the difference between Notional and Imaginary?

Notional as an adjective is of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary. while Imaginary as an adjective is existing only in the imagination

Notional

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary. Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research. Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category. Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.

Imaginary

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: existing only in the imaginationof a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.

Example sentence: Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke.

We hope you now know whether to use Notional or Imaginary in your sentence.

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