factitious

artificial; contrived: His enthusiastic response was factitious.; made; manufactured: a factitious part

Not to be confused with:

facetious – not to be taken seriously; amusing; humorous; frivolous: I was only being facetious.

fictitious – spurious, fake; fictional; created or assumed with the intention to conceal: a fictitious name; imaginatively produced: a fictitious story

fac·ti·tious

(făk-tĭsh′əs)

adj.

1. Produced artificially rather than by a natural process.

2. Lacking authenticity or genuineness; sham: speculators responsible for the factitious value of some stocks.

[From Latin factīcius, from factus, past participle of facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

fac·ti′tious·ly adv.

fac·ti′tious·ness n.

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factitious

(fækˈtɪʃəs)

adj

1. artificial rather than natural: factitious demands created by the mass media.

2. not genuine; sham: factitious enthusiasm.

[C17: from Latin factīcius, from facere to make, do]

facˈtitiously adv

facˈtitiousness n

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fac•ti•tious

(fækˈtɪʃ əs)

adj.

artificial or contrived; not spontaneous or natural.

[1640–50; < Latin factīcius artificial. See fact, -itious]

fac•ti′tious•ly, adv.

fac•ti′tious•ness, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

factitious - not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks"

artificial, unreal - contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

factitious

adjective

Marked by unnaturalness, pretension, and often a slavish love of fads:

artificial, plastic, synthetic, unnatural.

Translations

factitious

[fækˈtɪʃəs] ADJ → facticio

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factitious

adj → künstlich, unecht; demand for goods → hochgespielt

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factitious

[fækˈtɪʃəs] adj (frm) → artificiale

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fac·ti·tious

a. facticio-a, artificial, no natural.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

factitious

adj facticio, simulado, fingido

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I have divided it into twenty-four hours, like the Italian clocks, because for me there is neither night nor day, sun nor moon, but only that factitious light that I take with me to the bottom of the sea.

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He threw out biting remarks on Lydgate's tricks, worthy only of a quack, to get himself a factitious reputation with credulous people.

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And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

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I revelled in all his appearances in the Histories, and I tried to be as happy where a factitious and perfunctory Falstaff comes to life again in the "Merry Wives of Windsor," though at the bottom of my heart I felt the difference.

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What a tiresome custom that is, by-the-by - one among the many sources of factitious annoyance of this ultra-civilised life.

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"Ah, yes," said the factitious abbe, who began to understand; "and what name does the young man bear meanwhile?"

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I have known many men who, besides any factitious advantages that I may possess, had money and brains into the bargain; but somehow they have never disturbed my good-humor.

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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.

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Jamieson denied the killing and blamed Nichola, 29,claiming she was suffering from post-natal depression or factitious disorder by proxy, where a mother tries to get attention by harming her child.

BABY ABBIE'S KILLER DAD GETS 16 YEARS; Sickening photo of thug just before daughter's murder

The fundamental problem with this book lies in the factitious world of tropology.

Jeanne Shami, ed. Renaissance Tropologies: The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England

This would, however, require a very clear political signal from Ukraine's factitious elite.

ENERGY COMMUNITY : EU TO CONDITIONALLY APPROVE UKRAINE'S JOINING ENERGY COMMUNITY