factitious

1. 1.

   not produced by natural forces

   “brokers created a factitious demand for stocks”

   Similarartificial

Questions about factitious

What does factitious mean?

factitious means "not produced by natural forces".

How many syllables are in factitious?

factitious has 3 syllables: fac-tit-ious. The stress falls on "tit". In IPA it is /fækˈtɪʃəs/.

Is factitious a common word?

factitious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with factitious?

3 words rhyme with factitious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.