factitiousness
- 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 Neilson, William Allan
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 Hardy, Thomas
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 Hauptmann, Gerhart
