Definition of "factitious"
factitious
adjective
comparative more factitious, superlative most factitious
Created by humans; artificial.
Quotations
[...] 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.
1661, Robert Lovell, a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page 351
Counterfeit, fabricated, fake.
Quotations
Ironically, the most stereotypical myth of Reconstructionism — involving perceived endemic corruption and ruthless exploitation of hapless native whites by freedman and carpetbaggers seeking to gain from black rule — is a factitious story of postwar South Carolina, as told with considerable and lurid exaggeration in two "classic" accounts […]
2008, Richard L. Hume, Jerry B. Gough, Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction, Louisiana State University Press, published 2008, page 168