Factitious

The court heard Hayden-Johnson suffers from a condition called Factitious Disorder by Proxy which led her to draw attention to herself.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

The piece debuted in a group show that opened last Friday, 23 June 2006, called "Factitious" at Brooklyn's

Cool Hunting 2009

The piece debuted in a group show that opened last Friday, 23 June 2006, called "Factitious" at Brooklyn's

Cool Hunting 2009

The piece debuted in a group show that opened last Friday, 23 June 2006, called "Factitious" at Brooklyn's

Cool Hunting 2009

The piece debuted in a group show that opened last Friday, 23 June 2006, called "Factitious" at Brooklyn's

Cool Hunting 2009

In 1766, he published a paper titled Three Papers containing Experiments on Factitious Airs in which he identified what he called "inflammable air" (later termed hydrogen by Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier) and "fixed air" (or carbon dioxide) as substances that should be distinguised from air.

Cavendish, Henry 2009

Factitious thirst, which is specific to the human race, comes from that innate instinct which leads us to seek in drinks a force not put there by nature, and which comes about only through fermentation.

Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire 2007

Factitious merit has a way of asking questions and saying little; and understands the art of putting others forward to save the necessity of posing before them; then, with a happy knack of its own, it draws and attaches others by the thread of the ruling passion of self-interest, keeping men of far greater abilities to play like puppets, and despising those whom it has brought down to its own level.

A Woman of Thirty 2007

Factitious thirst is peculiar to man, and results from the instinct which impels him to seek in drink the strength he needs.

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

[1] For a less technical and more generally accessible example, see "Facts and the Factitious in the Natural Sciences" in Critical Inquiry 18 (1991), pp. 140 – 153.

'Sex, Lies, and Social Science': An Exchange Gagnon, John H. 1995