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factitious vs. fictitious

factitious

adjective

  1. not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived.

    factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.

  2. made; manufactured.

    a decoration of factitious flowers and leaves.

fictitious

adjective

  1. created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false.

    fictitious names.

    Synonyms: fake, spurious

  2. of, relating to, or consisting of fiction; imaginatively produced or set forth; created by the imagination.

    a fictitious hero.

    Synonyms: fictional