Factitious \Fac*ti"tious\, a. [L. factitius, fr. facere to make.
See Fact, and cf. Fetich.]
Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature;
artificial; sham; contrived; formed by, or adapted to, an
artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural,
standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or
jewels; a factitious taste. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
factitious
adj : not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a
factitious demand for stocks"
WordNet (r) 2.0
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "factitious":
affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, counterfeit, counterfeited,
engineered, fabricated, faked, false, falsified, feigned, forced,
imitation, insincere, man-made, manufactured, mock, pretended,
rigged, set up, sham, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unauthentic,
unreal
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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