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    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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