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factitious

adj
/fækˈtɪʃəs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin factītius (“artificial”), alternative form of factīcius, from faciō (“to make, do”). Doublet of fetish.

  1. borrowed from factītius

Definitions

  1. Created by humans

    Created by humans; artificial.

    • [...] if from erosion of the gums, by such things as restore them, strengthen and bind them; if wanting, it may be helped by the factitious; their ſordes are removed, by washing and cleaning them; and their blacknesse, by dentifrices.
    • Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
    • Manners are partly factitious, but, mainly, there must be capacity for culture in the blood. Else all culture is vain.

  2. Counterfeit, fabricated, fake.

    • […] To prevent a prisoner's escape, to prevent his suborning testimony, and arranging a factitious tale with those without, may justify many precautions."
    • "Well, mater," he said, in a voice of factitious calm, "I've got it." He was looking up at the ceiling. "Got what?" "The National Scholarship. Swynnerton says it's a sheer fluke. But I've got it. Great glory for the Bursley School of Art!"

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Derived

factitious disorder imposed on another, factitiously, factitiousness, unfactitious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at factitious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at factitious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at factitious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA