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

“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

It’s good that he’s sharing it with us, but it comes packaged with a theme so transparently factitious that one can’t take it seriously.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 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