Artifice vs Stratagem - What's the difference?
artifice | stratagem | 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
A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]:
Artifice is a related term of stratagem.
As nouns the difference between artifice and stratagem
is that artifice is craftsman, artificer while stratagem is a tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.artifice
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(en noun)stratagem
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(en noun)- While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.