Fictitious
Fictitious adjective - Not real and existing only in the imagination.
Pseudo and fictitious are semantically related in sham topic. In some cases you can use "Pseudo" instead an adjective "Fictitious".
Pseudo
Pseudo adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.
Fictitious and pseudo are semantically related in sham topic. Sometimes you can use "Fictitious" instead an adjective "Pseudo".
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- Perhaps not related, but similar in theme: The Onion's pseudo-atlas Our Dumb World claims that Cameroon is a fictitious creation of an 18th-century cartographer, and the islands of Tonga are something they, the editors, just made up.
Source: Memes / Other Internet - What this meant was, if enough humans believe that a fictitious character is real and he has enough fans, it can give the character a pseudo-life, which seems to be what happened.
Source: Clap Your Hands If You Believe - Almost Famous, the pseudo-biography of director Cameron Crowe, features the fictitious band Stillwater as a composite of several groups Crowe toured with as a Rolling Stone columnist, including the Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, and the Who.
Source: Composite Character / Film
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