factitiousness
- noun
- /fækˈtɪʃəsnəs/
- Formal
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ficticidad
- The researcher questioned the factitiousness of the data, suspecting it was manipulated to achieve desirable results.
Examples
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Critics often highlight the factitiousness of social media profiles that present curated versions of people's lives.
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The factitiousness of his story was evident as it lacked any personal experiences.
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Bloom actually defends this factitiousness with his assertion that all our accounts.
Academic text (1991) -
All factitiousness aside, don't you want the person preparing your food to have at least the minimal healthy care that would enable them to see a physician when they are sick?
Blog text (22) -
But first one must point out that there is a consistency in the factitiousness of the translation of some of the passages, a consistency in the service of Bloom's commentary.
Academic text (1991) -
There is worse: books and their authors are seen as mediations capable of choking spontaneity and authenticity, conducive to bad faith and factitiousness.
Academic text (1995) -
To an extent, of course, this factitiousness is a commonplace of romance composition, but this narrator systematically fixes our attention on his authorial activity and on the artifice of his text.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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6.5
A false story made to trick people
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7.9
A statement or idea that is not true
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5.8
A way of speaking or acting that is not true
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7.9
The state of not being real or true
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9.4
The appearance of being true when it is false
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7.5
The state of being imagined rather than real, often in stories
A quality of being made up and not real that people sometimes use to trick others
The state of being not real or true
The state of being fake and trying to trick people
Being probably not true or not from a real source
Antonyms
How Natural
Surface Forms
Morphology
factitiousness = factitious (transparent) = factitious + ness
Standard noun formation by adding '-ness' to the adjective 'factitious'; the meaning 'the quality of being factitious' follows directly from the base adjective.
Etymology
Factitiousness comes from the Latin root fac- meaning 'to make', and you can see the same root in factory, a place that makes things. So factitiousness is the quality of being 'made' rather than natural, which is why it describes something artificial or not real.