1. factitious - Adjective
2. factitious - Adjective Satellite
Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours. Jean-Baptiste Say
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must. Victor Hugo
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Henry David Thoreau
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? Paul Cézanne
The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitious. Thomas Henry Huxley
We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs. Emanuel Cleaver