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Synthetic   /sɪnθˈɛtɪk/   Listen
Synthetic

adjective
1.
Not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially.  Synonyms: man-made, semisynthetic.  "Synthetic leather"
2.
Involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis.  Synonym: synthetical.
3.
Systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words.
4.
Of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts.  Synonym: synthetical.
5.
Artificial as if portrayed in a film.  Synonym: celluloid.
6.
Not genuine or natural.



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... human body, but it can do little towards an explanation of the subtler meanings of life and mind. Its methods are analytical; it has reached no truly synthetic results in the regions where knowledge is most to be desired. Its effects on literature are destructive. Science destroys poetry, dries up the poetic sense, closes the doors of imagination. The attempt to make science co-operate with poetry is in itself the promise of failure. ...
— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke


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