Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being factitious.
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- noun The quality of being
factitious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nonetheless, the passage heightens the slight air of factitiousness in the novel, of an author very capably treading water.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Nonetheless, the passage heightens the slight air of factitiousness in the novel, of an author very capably treading water.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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Nonetheless, the passage heightens the slight air of factitiousness in the novel, of an author very capably treading water.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Aristotle prefers that the shuttle would shut up, because it announces its factitiousness rather than carry itself with an air of dignified inevitability.
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‘Let me kiss you — only a little one,’ he said with his usual delicacy, and without reading the factitiousness of her manner.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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Her replies were brief enough, and there was factitiousness in her smiles of assent to his views.
A Changed Man 2006
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None of the speculations on the proper meaning considered that it might be based on "faction" - which would make "factitiousness" a sort of tactical mendacity in support of one faction against another.
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The latter, in English, are stiff, coldly contrived, consciously elegant or marked by the sentimental factitiousness of the affair that occasioned them.
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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He alone is the creator of his drama, and no alien factitiousness is allowed to obscure its final aim -- the creation of living men.
The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Gerhart Hauptmann 1904
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Hence possibly what seemed to me a superficiality and factitiousness in the excitement of the more expensive seats, and a too-rapid effervescence and finish of the excitement when the game was over.
Your United States Impressions of a first visit Arnold Bennett 1899
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