Of, or relating to made-up "truths", pulled out of your ass and delivered as gospel to the unsuspecting. (Similar to what Cliff Clavin of "Cheers" was famous for.)
"Women who breast-feed at least one child to the age of one year have a 32%statistically higher chance of having breast cancer than those who don't" is a factitious statement.
Fever that is produced artificially by a patient. This is done by artificially heating the thermometer or by use of pyrogenic substances and is suspected if the pulse rate is much less than expected for the degree of fever noted.
(faction as a fusion of the two....nah!)....."look ya wee fanny! It is the truth ....ok ok...maybe I have EMBELLISHED oan it a wee bit n that but it is pretty much factual! not Fictitious! Factitious mate! Factiontional ya fanny! (Embellendish.....same as embellish but being a pure fanny with it n that eh!)
It isnae a lie ya bawbag! It is Factishional/Factitious tae the max ya wee fud!
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).