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What does factitious mean?

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A distinction should be made between factitious disorders and malingering.
She was said to be suffering from factitious illness by proxy, a disorder previously referred to as Munchausen's syndrome by proxy.
Researchers also note the need to examine the patient's psychological status when hysteria, malingering, or factitious illness may be a factor.
He was in that state of factitious discontent which belongs to us amiable English.
The ear, freed from a factitious counting, takes joy in discerning, on its own, all the possible combinations of twelve tones.
What is this farcical, factitious glamour that will not bear the light of day?

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