[ˈnəʊʃən(ə)l], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- existing as or based on a suggestion, estimate, or theory; not existing in reality
(e.g: notional budgets for hospital and community health services)

- 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

- (in language teaching) denoting or relating to a syllabus that aims to develop communicative competence


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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)