English▸ adjective artificially created or developed rather than genuine; invented:
a largely factitious national identity
the outcry over staffing levels was factitious
the events described have a factitious air about them.
▪ Medicine (of a medical condition or symptom) feigned or self-induced:
a factitious disorder.
– ORIGIN early 17th century (in the general sense ‘made by human skill or effort’): from Latin facticius ‘made by art’, from facere ‘do, make’.