factitious
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- adjective
- /fækˈtɪʃəs/
- Formal
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artificial
- The artist's work has a factitious quality, as it mimics nature without involving real materials.
- factitious illness
Examples
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A factitious illness is one in which a patient consciously and deliberately presents with a self-induced injury or a false history in order to mislead a physician into making an erroneous diagnosis and administering some type of treatment.
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Factitious illness is rare in otolaryngology, and it is different from malingering, which is not uncommon in otolaryngologic practice.
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Doing so may encourage the patient to cease the factitious complaints and begin productive psychiatric treatment.
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Welcome to another Dirty Dozen with a video about Factitious Disorder and Malingering.
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The PVCM was an important aspect of this particular case because the differential diagnosis of this condition includes factitious disease.
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Factitious illness is also different from a somatoform disorder.
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Munchausen's syndrome is a factitious illness in which patients fabricate medical problems in order to receive medical attention.
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As a psychiatric consultant in the general hospital, I'm infrequently called upon to render an opinion about and assistance with managing patients who are thought to be lying about symptoms (usually medical, although factitious disorder can be about psychological symptoms as well).
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His fascination with creating fake problems often leads to factitious symptoms that confuse doctors.
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During the experiment, the scientists noted that some results were factitious, not arising from natural processes.
Synonyms
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3.6
Made by people rather than by nature, often as a copy of something natural
Made by people instead of nature
Antonyms
How Natural
Surface Forms
Etymology
Factitious comes from the Latin verb facere, which means 'to make', and it originally meant 'made' or 'artificial'. Think of a factory, where things are made; a factitious feeling or result is 'made up' rather than natural.