factitiousness

Body things, as he was learning, had an intense factitiousness about them, an irreducibility.

But the empty grandiosity apparent there is merely the local manifestation of a general strain, a general factitiousness.

Or, "And then, with an interior sense of factitiousness that was only too familiar, she leaned toward him and raised her voice through the mounting volume of the band."

Relying on testimony from male acquaintances who knew Monroe, Diana Trilling claimed to discover a "considerable factitiousness in Marilyn Monroe as a sexual figure."

The coincidence is neat: on the one hand, the system is faced with the necessity of reintegrating newly redundant labor; on the other, the very factitiousness of the needs associated with the commodities on offer calls out a whole battery of reserve forces.

When the characters are not experiencing absolute fatality or familiar factitiousness (whatever that is), they are using a lot of the more common four-letter vulgarisms, so frequently in fact that the dialogue, rather than seeming natural and informal, takes on the forced quality of people trying too hard to be natural and informal.