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Fictional vs Artificial - What's the difference?

fictional | artificial |

As adjectives the difference between fictional and artificial

is that fictional is invented, as opposed to real while artificial is man-made; of artifice.

fictional

English

Adjective

(wikipedia fictional) (en adjective)
  • Invented, as opposed to real.
  • Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters.
    The janitor's account of the crime turned out to be entirely fictional .

    artificial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Man-made; of artifice.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) 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.}}
  • False, misleading.
  • Unnatural.
  • Derived terms

    * artificial consciousness * artificial intelligence * artificiality * artificially * artificialness * artificial selection * artificial turf

    See also

    * fake ----