factitious

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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

That’s because, for the most part, music is used in movies as sonic wallpaper, covering silences and images with an indifferent and casually factitious unity.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017

Today, Munchausen is considered the most severe type of factitious disorder, a group of mental illnesses in which a person feigns a physical, emotional or cognitive condition.

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

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

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath