factitious

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Created by humans; artificial.
    — [...] if from erosion of the gums, by such things as restore them, strengthen and bind them; if wanting, it may be helped by the factitious; their ſordes are removed, by washing and cleaning them; and their blacknesse, by dentifrices.
  2. Counterfeit, fabricated, fake. formal
    — […] To prevent a prisoner's escape, to prevent his suborning testimony, and arranging a factitious tale with those without, may justify many precautions."

词形变化

more factitious comparative most factitious superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
factitious disorder imposed on another factitiously factitiousness unfactitious
相关词
fictitious

词源

Borrowed from Latin factītius (“artificial”), alternative form of factīcius, from faciō (“to make, do”). Doublet of fetish.
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