fictitious

• ficticious, fictious (archaic, otherwise misspelling)

Borrowed from Latin fictīcius.

• IPA^(key): /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃəs
• Hyphenation: fic‧ti‧tious

fictitious (not comparable)

1. Invented; contrived.

   Synonyms: imaginary, invented, contrived, fictive, fabled

   • 2015, Clifford Chafin, “The Absence of Stokes Drift in Waves”, in arXiv‎^[1]‎^[2], archived from the original on 20 April 2024:

     Here we demonstrate that the explanation for this arises from subtle end-of-packet and wavetrain gradient effects such as microbreaking events and wave-flow decomposition subtleties required to conserve mass and momentum and avoid fictitious external forces.

   • 2026 January 21, David Smith, “Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech”, in The Guardian‎^[3], →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 March 2026:

     It is there in Trump’s decision to grant asylum to white South Africans because of a fictitious “white genocide” said to be taking place in their country.

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