Synonyms for factitious
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : fak-tish-uh s |
| Phonetic Transcription : fækˈtɪʃ əs |
Définition of factitious
Origin :- 1640s, from Latin factitius "artificial," from factus, past participle of facere "do" (source of French faire, Spanish hacer), from PIE root *dhe- "to put, to do" (cf. Sanskrit dadhati "puts, places;" Avestan dadaiti "he puts;" Old Persian ada "he made;" Hittite dai- "to place;" Greek tithenai "to put, set, place;" Lithuanian deti "to put;" Polish dziać się "to be happening;" Russian delat' "to do;" Old High German tuon, German tun, Old Saxon, Old English don "to do;" Old Frisian dua, Old Swedish duon, Gothic gadeths "a doing;" Old Norse dalidun "they did").
- adj unnatural
- What is this farcical, factitious glamour that will not bear the light of day?
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- It was a factitious strength, the restlessness of incipient insanity.
- Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
- He was in that state of factitious discontent which belongs to us amiable English.
- Extract from : « Stories of Comedy » by Various
- In these cases, it is not merely that everything is exaggerated, but everything is factitious.
- Extract from : « Tancred » by Benjamin Disraeli
- Indeed it has created a factitious interest in da Vinci's masterwork.
- Extract from : « The Merry-Go-Round » by Carl Van Vechten
- At the next he thought with factitious solemnity: 'Yes, my boy!
- Extract from : « Five Tales » by John Galsworthy
- This appears to me an insoluble question, and probably, even, a factitious one.
- Extract from : « The Mind and the Brain » by Alfred Binet
- The end is not violent or factitious, it is necessary and inevitable.
- Extract from : « The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory » by George Saintsbury
- The officers of the society were to be known only by factitious (sic) names.
- Extract from : « The Chronicles of Newgate, v. 2/2 » by Arthur Griffiths
- Factitious cinnabar, Red sulphide of mercury, Red sulphuret of mercury.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
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- petrifaction
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- reactionary faction
- Rh factor
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- satisfaction
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- stupefaction
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- take satisfaction
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