What is the difference between artifice and artificial?
artifice | artificial | Related terms |
a crafty but underhanded deception
a trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse
a strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture
a tactical move to gain advantage
Man-made; of artifice.
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False, misleading.
Unnatural.
Artificial is a related term of artifice.
As a noun artifice
is a crafty but underhanded deception.As an adjective artificial is
man-made; of artifice.artifice
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(en adjective)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.}}