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- Word comparison: factitious vs. fictitious
factitious vs. fictitious
adjective
- not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived:
factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.
- made; manufactured:
a decoration of factitious flowers and leaves.
adjective
- created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false:
fictitious names.
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- of, relating to, or consisting of fiction; imaginatively produced or set forth; created by the imagination:
a fictitious hero.
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