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UK
/fæktˈɪʃəs/
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[ US /fækˈtɪʃəs/ ]
[ US /fækˈtɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not produced by natural forces
brokers created a factitious demand for stocks
How To Use factitious In A Sentence
- Finally, for each consultation episode the diagnosis was noted (if given) and it was determined whether the episode was medically unexplained, mixed (evidence of both physical and psychological disorder), or factitious.
- In December 1796 he had prompted French sympathizers in cities freed by French arms from Modenese and papal rule to form themselves into a Cispadane Republic, itself absorbed in June 1796 into the equally factitious Cisalpine one.
- For decades, physicians have known about so-called factitious disorder, better known in its severe form as Munchausen syndrome.
- People with factitious disorder feign or actually induce illness in themselves, typically to garner the nurturance of others.
- But good judges have assured me that there was much that was factitious in the manner of this eminent comedian, and that his vivacity was a trifle mechanical. The Théâtre Francais
- The patients were not diagnosed as having a factitious disorder or malingering because their symptoms were judged not to be fabricated, feigned, or intentionally produced.
- The problem is the difficulty of distinguishing malingering from factitious disorders, in which symptoms are intentionally produced but where there is no apparent external incentive and the motivation seems to be unconscious.
- During multiple hospitalizations, she developed episodes of fever of unknown origin and was believed to have factitiously elevated her temperature.
- Brightly quips factitiously, “... what a saving of time and of reason there will be, when, instead of inquiring the past actions and propensities of a man, you have only to run over his head with your fingers and become acquainted with his character at once” (2.3.693). Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies
- My sentiment and my reason combat more than ever the idea of factitious distinctions, the inequality of conditions imposed as a right acquired by some, as a loss deserved by others. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
