factitious
adjective/fækˈtɪʃəs/
/fækˈtɪʃəs/
(formal)- not real but created deliberately and made to appear to be trueWord Originmid 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘made by human skill or effort’): from Latin facticius ‘made by art’, from facere ‘do, make’.
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