factitious
adjective
not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived.
factitiousness
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a word derived from
factitious.
Example Sentences
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As in all such sagas, fact and factitiousness mix indiscriminately.
From Time Magazine Archive
In appearances at Central Texas College in Killeen, the Space Assembly Facility at Michoud, La., and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention at Bal Harbour, Fla., Johnson mixed folksiness, fire and factitiousness to concoct a politically potent brew.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is amusing, but has still to some tastes Pope's factitiousness without the technical charm of his verse to carry it off.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury
He alone is the creator of his drama, and no alien factitiousness is allowed to obscure its final aim—the creation of living men.
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Gerhart Hauptmann
Her replies were brief enough, and there was factitiousness in her smiles of assent to his views.
From A Changed Man; and other tales by Thomas Hardy
