factitious
[fak-tish-uh s]
adjective
not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived: factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.
made; manufactured: a decoration of factitious flowers and leaves.
Origin of factitious
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What is this farcical, factitious glamour that will not bear the light of day?
Dreamers of the GhettoI. Zangwill
It was a factitious strength, the restlessness of incipient insanity.
RomanceJoseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
He was in that state of factitious discontent which belongs to us amiable English.
Stories of ComedyVarious
In these cases, it is not merely that everything is exaggerated, but everything is factitious.
TancredBenjamin Disraeli
Indeed it has created a factitious interest in da Vinci's masterwork.
The Merry-Go-RoundCarl Van Vechten
factitious
adjective
Word Origin for factitious
C17: from Latin factīcius, from facere to make, do
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factitious
[făk-tĭsh′əs]
adj.
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