factitious
adjective
not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived.
factitiousness
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a word derived from
factitious.
Example Sentences
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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
As in all such sagas, fact and factitiousness mix indiscriminately.
From Time Magazine Archive
The latter, in English, are stiff, coldly contrived, consciously elegant or marked by the sentimental factitiousness of the affair that occasioned them.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
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
Hence possibly what seemed to me a superficiality and factitiousness in the excitement of the more expensive seats, and a too-rapid effervescence and finish of the excitement when the game was over.
From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett
