Definition of "factitiousness" []

• The quality of being factitious. (noun)

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• "Nonetheless, the passage heightens the slight air of factitiousness in the novel, of an author very capably treading water."
• "Aristotle prefers that the shuttle would shut up, because it announces its factitiousness rather than carry itself with an air of dignified inevitability."
• "‘Let me kiss you — only a little one,’ he said with his usual delicacy, and without reading the factitiousness of her manner."