fictitious
adjective
created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false.
fictitiousness
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a word derived from
fictitious.
Example Sentences
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In sprinting through all the negotiations that would finally put a winner on the Iron Throne, it accentuated its own fictitiousness: It was a story, and, it was getting late, and it had to end.
From Slate ● May 31, 2019
How can this be so if the speech is too long—the length itself convincing the listener of the fictitiousness of the scene?
From Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words by Friedrich Kerst
He remarked that he thought there was a certain amount of fictitiousness about the prosperity of the country, and that the bubble might as well be tapped in one way as another.
From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by George S. Boutwell
The scow episode is really a sublime burst of invention; but it does not thrill, because the inaccuracy of the details throws a sort of air of fictitiousness and general improbability over it.
From Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain
You have the poetry, the philanthropy, the man of to-day, the fictitiousness, and the business instinct necessary for the successful modern magazine all concentrated in one person.
From The Inventions of the Idiot by John Kendrick Bangs
