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factitious vs. fictitious

adjective

  1. not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived:

    factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.

  2. made; manufactured:

    a decoration of factitious flowers and leaves.



adjective

  1. created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false:

    fictitious names.

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  2. of, relating to, or consisting of fiction; imaginatively produced or set forth; created by the imagination:

    a fictitious hero.

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