Wednesday, September 25, 2013

fictitious, factitious

Fictitious or fictitious means pretend, assumed, or imaginary--
The characters shown in this movie are fictitious, and do not represent any real persons.
If you want to do business as "Apps, Inc.", you will need to register that as a fictitious name.

Factitious or factitious means made or manufactured, or artificial or contrived--
These are factitious, they are not real historical artifacts.
We walked in on a factitious scenario, in which the two seemed to be having an argument.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"He didn't acknowledge that his factitious grievances were the fictitious products of his own mind."

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