Pseudo vs Artificial - What's the difference?
pseudo | artificial |
An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
A poseur; one who is fake.
(travel industry, informal) pseudo-city code
(Internet) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
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Other than what is apparent, a sham.
Insincere.
Spurious.
Man-made; of artifice.
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False, misleading.
Unnatural.
As adjectives the difference between pseudo and artificial
is that pseudo is other than what is apparent, a sham while artificial is man-made; of artifice.As a noun pseudo
is an intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.pseudo
English
Noun
(en noun)- Issues such as verifiability (for age declared), anonymity (in spite of pseudos and avatars) and traceability are at stake
References
* The Australian Concise Oxford DictionaryAdjective
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* The Australian Concise Oxford DictionaryAnagrams
* ----artificial
English
Adjective
(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.}}