What is the meaning of fictitious?

Formed or conceived by the imagination.
- usage: "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"
- synonyms: fabricated, fancied, fictional
Adopted in order to deceive.
- usage: "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
- synonyms: assumed, false, fictive, pretended, put on, sham

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