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factitious

[fak-tish-uhs] / fækˈtɪʃ əs /
ADJECTIVE
unnatural
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Prof Marc Feldman is one of the world's most renowned experts on factitious disorders like Munchausen syndrome.

From BBC May 7, 2023

Because of his specialization in factitious disorder, Feldman hears from both victims and perpetrators of Munchausen by Internet.

From Washington Post Jun. 20, 2016

“The heroic image that cancer survivors increasingly have is attractive to factitious disorder patients,” Marc Feldman writes in his book scholarly Playing Sick.

From The Guardian Feb. 18, 2016

The myths in them didn’t seem at all factitious.

From The New Yorker Jan. 14, 1966

I hadn't known what factitious meant, so I looked it up in the dictionary.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath




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