Dictionary Definition
factitious adj : not produced by natural forces;
"brokers created a factitious demand for stocks"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Created by humans, artificial.
- 1661, Robert Lovell, a Compleat History of Animals and
Minerals, page
351
- [...] if from eroſion of the gumms, by ſuch things as reſtore them, ſtrengthen and bind them; if wanting, it may be helped by the factitious; their ſordes are remooved, by waſhing and cleaning them; and their blackneſſe, by dentifrices.
- 1661, Robert Lovell, a Compleat History of Animals and
Minerals, page
351
- Counterfeit, fabricated.
Derived terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, counterfeit, counterfeited, engineered, fabricated, faked, false, falsified, feigned, forced, imitation, insincere, man-made, manufactured, mock, pretended, rigged, set up, sham, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unauthentic, unreal