MEANING
Produced artificially or deliberately rather than arising naturally or spontaneously.
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- factitious needs
- factitious enthusiasm
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The campaign cultivated factitious needs that its products then promised to satisfy.
Her factitious enthusiasm faded as soon as the guests left.
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- factitious
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more factitious; superlative most factitious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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