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Definition: Factitious |
FactitiousAdjective1. Not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "factitious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references) |
Etymology: Factitious \Fac*ti"tious\, adjective. [Latin expression factitius, from facere to make. See Fact, and compare to Fetich.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: FactitiousSynonym: Unnatural. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem. |
Untruth | Adjective: untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory, illusory; ironical; soi-disant; (misnamed). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Factitious |
| Specialty definitions using "factitious": Factitious Disorders. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "factitious": Fetis. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Whatever humanity I might conjure up against it was all factitious, and concerned my philosophy more than my feelings. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Factitious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Factitious" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "factitious": Factitious Disorders. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "factitious": Factitious-ness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
factitious disorder | 34 |
factitious | 4 |
factitious hyperthyroidism | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "factitious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i krijuar vetë, artificial (artful, artificial, camp, cultured, false, made, meretricious, pinchbeck, simulated, synthetic, synthetical, tin, unnatural). (various references) | |
Arabic | متكلف (affected, artificial, assumed, constrained, faked, false, feigned, forced, mannered, overacted, put on, sham, stagy, stilted, stogie, strained, theatrical, unnatural), صنعي (made up). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, hollow, imitative, insincere, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, sharp, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), престорен (affected, bogus, feigned, mimic, phoney, pretended, put on, sham, simulated, synthetic), привиден (colorable, colourable, fictitious, formal, left handed, ostensible, ostentatious, outward, phantom, put on, seeming, superficial, token), изкуствен (affected, artificial, false, imitation, man-made, mimic, pinchbeck, theatrical, unnatural, unreal). (various references) | |
French | artificiel. (various references) | |
German | künstlich (artifical, artificial, factious, factitiously, fake, false, imitately, imitation, man-made, simulated, synthetic, synthetical, unnatural). (various references) | |
Greek | τεχνητόσ (artificial). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלאכותי (artificial, made, made up, spurious, synthetic, unnatural). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mesterkélt (affected, artful, artificial, compt, constrained, dandified, finicking, mannered, meretricious, mimic, namby-pamby, precious, prim, sophisticated, stiff, theatrical, unconstrained), hamis (adulterous, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, false, frame-up, hollow, insincere, loaded, make-believe, mendacious, meretricious, mock, mockery, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseud, pseudo, sham, simulated, snide, spurious, supposititious, surreptitious, two faced, untrue, untruthful). (various references) | |
Italian | fittizio (dummy, fictitious, fictive), artificioso (affected, artful, artificial). (various references) | |
Manx | breaghagh (bad, bad as money). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | actitiousfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | faccioso (cliquish). (various references) | |
Romanian | falsificat (adulterate, adulterine, impure, sophisticated, spurious, strained), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully), nefiresc (affected, artificial, artificially, cardboard, unnatural, weird), artificial (artificial, artificially, false, far fetched, fine-drawn, man-made, practised). (various references) | |
Russian | искусственный (artificial, far-fetched, made, made up, man-made, phantomlike, shoddy, synthetic, synthetical). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veštački (artificial, bogus, californium, false, man-made, unnatural), lažan (apocryphal, assumed, counterfeit, dummy, fake, faked, false, feigned, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, reprobate, sham, spurious, supposititious, untruthful). (various references) | |
Spanish | facticio (artificial). (various references) | |
Swedish | konstlad (affected, artificial, constrained, plastic), konstgjord (artificial, imitation, made, unreal). (various references) | |
Turkish | yapmacık (affected, artificial, campy, chichi, constrained, counterfeit, false, feigned, genteel, plummy, pretended, put on, rose water, set, shifty, sophisticated, studied, studious, theatrical, unnatural), yapay (artificial, ersatz, imitation, spurious, synthetical, unnatural), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), düzmeceli. (various references) | |
Ukranian | умовний (conditional, contingent, nominal, provisional, provisory, relative, simulated, subjunctive), штучний (artful, artificial, made, made up, man-made, non-natural, synthetic, synthetical). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không tự nhiên (affected, affectedly, far-fetched, theatrical), giả tạo (affected, affectedly, unnatural). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | factitius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "factitious": factitiously, factitiousness, factitiousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Factitious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faceitious, facetitious, facitious, facittious, factitous, fasitious, fastitious, fectitious, ficeitious, ficitious, ficticious, fictictious, fictitius, fictitous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "factitious" (pronounced fakti"shus) |
| 6 | -k t i" sh u s | fictitious. |
| 5 | -t i" sh u s | repetitious, superstitious, surreptitious. |
| 4 | -i" sh u s | ambitious, auspicious, capricious, delicious, expeditious, inauspicious, injudicious, judicious, malicious, nutritious, pernicious, propitious, seditious, suspicious, vicious. |
| 3 | -sh u s | anxious, atrocious, audacious, capacious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, efficacious, facetious, fallacious, ferocious, flirtatious, fractious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, infectious, loquacious, luscious, nauseous, noxious, obnoxious, ostentatious, overambitious, precious, precocious, predaceous, pretentious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, salacious, sebaceous, semiprecious, spacious, specious, subconscious, tenacious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-i-o-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: autistic, factious. | |
-3 letters: outacts, outcast, outfast, outfits. | |
-4 letters: attics, coatis, coitus, cottas, fiasco, fistic, fustic, otitic, otitis, outact, outfit, outsat, outsit, scotia, static. | |
-5 letters: ascot, attic, autos, coast, coati, coats, coifs, costa, cotta, cuifs, cutis, facts, fatso, fiats, ficus, focus, foist, ictus, iotas, ostia, scatt, scout, scuta, softa, stoai, stoat, stoic, stout, sutta, tacit, tacos, tacts, tauts, titis, toast, tofts, tofus, toits, touts, tufas, tufts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-i-o-s-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: factitiously. | |
+3 letters: functionalist, justification, justificatory, trifurcations. | |
+4 letters: autoinfections, factitiousness, functionalists, justifications, stultification. | |
+5 letters: anfractuosities, beautifications, centrifugations, fructifications, functionalistic, functionalities, quantifications, stultifications. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 63 74 69 74 69 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -.-. - .. - .. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a c t i t i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0063 0074 0069 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40676986758675818785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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