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factitious

[fak-tish-uhs] / fækˈtɪʃ əs /
ADJECTIVE
unnatural
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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

According to one study on factitious disorder, half of patients also had borderline personality disorder, while a third showed signs of narcissistic personality disorder.

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

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




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