factitious

factitious

englanti

  1. keinotekoinen

  2. teennäinen, epäaito

  3. lääketiede|k=en itseaiheutettu

Esimerkkejä factitious sanan käytöstä:

Stock market speculation caused a rapid and purely 'factitious' rise in the price of the stock.

:Pörssikeinottelu aiheutti nopean ja puhtaasti 'keinotekoisen' nousun osakkeen hinnassa.

She smiled 'factitiously'.

:Hän hymyili 'teennäisesti'.

Munchausen patients are adept at concealing the fact that their diseases are 'factitious'.

:Münchhausen-potilaat ovat taitavia salaamaan sen tosiseikan, että heidän sairautensa ovat 'itseaiheutettuja'.

Liittyvät sanat: self-induced

Synonyymisanakirja

factitious

  1. epäaito, keino-, keinotekoinen, teko-, epätodellinen, kuvitteellinen.

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Käännökset

englanti

keinotekoinen create Created by humans; artificial.
1661, Robert Lovell, a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page http://books.google.com/books?id=U08PAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PT412&dq=factitious 351

... if from erosion of the gums, by such things as restore them, strengthen and bind them; if wanting, it may be helped by the factitious; their ſordes are removed, by washing and cleaning them; and their blacknesse, by dentifrices.
1854, Thoreau, Walden, s:Walden/Chapter I|chapter 1
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
1860, Emerson, Conduct of life, s:The Conduct of Life/Behavior|Behavior
Manners are partly factitious, but, mainly, there must be capacity for culture in the blood. Else all culture is vain.
counterfeit Counterfeit, fabricated, fake.
(quote-text) To prevent a prisoner's escape, to prevent his suborning testimony, and arranging a factitious tale with those without, may justify many precautions."
1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives Tale, s:The Old Wives Tale/Book II, Chapter VIII|book 2 chapter 8
"Well, mater," he said, in a voice of factitious calm, "I've got it." He was looking up at the ceiling.
"Got what?"
"The National Scholarship. Swynnerton says it's a sheer fluke. But I've got it. Great glory for the Bursley School of Art!"
2008, Richard L. Hume & Jerry B. Gough, Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction, Louisiana State University Press (2008), ISBN 9780807133248, http://books.google.com/books?id=8WnPeySUKEIC&pg=PA168 page 168:
Ironically, the most stereotypical myth of Reconstructionism — involving perceived endemic corruption and ruthless exploitation of hapless native whites by freedman and carpetbaggers seeking to gain from black rule — is a factitious story of postwar South Carolina, as told with considerable and lurid exaggeration in two "classic" accounts (�)

Riimisanakirja

factitious rimmaa näiden kanssa:

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faarao, faasi, fabuloida, fabulointi, factoring, factoringyhtiö

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