Fabricated vs Artificial - What's the difference?
fabricated | artificial |
(fabricate)
constructed or assembled
false in the sense of made-up, constructed
Man-made; of artifice.
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False, misleading.
Unnatural.
As adjectives the difference between fabricated and artificial
is that fabricated is constructed or assembled while artificial is man-made; of artifice.As a verb fabricated
is (fabricate).fabricated
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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.}}