factitious
- not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived: factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.
- made; manufactured: a decoration of factitious flowers and leaves.
Origin of factitious
Examples from the Web for factitious
Historical Examples of factitious
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
- artificial rather than naturalfactitious demands created by the mass media
- not genuine; shamfactitious enthusiasm
Word Origin for factitious
Word Origin and History for factitious
1640s, from Latin factitius "artificial," from factus, past participle of facere "do" (source of French faire, Spanish hacer), from PIE root *dhe- "to put, to do" (cf. Sanskrit dadhati "puts, places;" Avestan dadaiti "he puts;" Old Persian ada "he made;" Hittite dai- "to place;" Greek tithenai "to put, set, place;" Lithuanian deti "to put;" Polish dziać się "to be happening;" Russian delat' "to do;" Old High German tuon, German tun, Old Saxon, Old English don "to do;" Old Frisian dua, Old Swedish duon, Gothic gadeths "a doing;" Old Norse dalidun "they did").
factitious
(făk-tĭsh′əs)- Produced artificially rather than by a natural process.