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Something factitious is made to happen by people; it did not grow or appear by itself. A factitious smile is put on, not felt. A factitious shortage can be created when someone holds goods back so prices rise. Doctors also use it: factitious disorder is when a person makes themselves look ill on purpose. It is a formal, word, more at home in essays and clinics than in chat. Though actually, many meet first and mix the two. means invented, like a story or a fake name. Factitious means produced by human action, even if the thing in front of you is real. A plastic flower is made, not grown; a character in a novel is .
人為的、人為製造的（醫學上也可說「人為性」，如人為性疾患）
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
factitiousadj/fækˈtɪʃəs/
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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.
- 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.
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formalCounterfeit, fabricated, fake.
- […] To prevent a prisoner's escape, to prevent his suborning testimony, and arranging a factitious tale with those without, may justify many precautions."
- "Well, mater," he said, in a voice of factitious calm, "I've got it." He was looking up at the ceiling. "Got what?" "The National Scholarship. Swynnerton says it's a sheer fluke. But I've got it. Great glory for the Bursley School of Art!"
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。