factitious
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Factitious disorder is when someone falsely claims another person is ill in order to deceive other people, according to the Mayo Clinic.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2021
Factitious disorder is associated with childhood separations, emotional neglect or abuse, hypochondriac preoccupations and a history of hospitalization in early life.
From Washington Post • Jun. 20, 2016
Factitious folk have tried, futilely, to draw conclusions from the identical first names of Mr. Cline's unfortunate guest and one of his minor characters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Factitious, fak-tish′us, adj. made by art, in opposition to what is natural or spontaneous: conventional.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Factitious excitement is always the produce of corruption.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert
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