Vocabulary: factitious

Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions factitious.

Factitious means invented, but meant to be real or believed even so. A person may be trying to get a business up and running; if they say it exists before it really does, you might think of it as being factitious. A person’s appreciation of something can also be factitious.

Source:

Mish, Frederick C. (ed). Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.