Faux vs Synthetic - What's the difference?
faux | synthetic |
As adjectives the difference between faux and synthetic is that faux is fake or artificial while synthetic is of, or relating to synthesis. As a noun synthetic is a synthetic compound.
faux English
Adjective
( -)
Fake or artificial
- clothing made from faux leather
- a faux -archaic style of speech
- faux wine
Antonyms
* genuine
Derived terms
* faux pas
* fauxhawk / fohawk
* fauxhemian
* fauxlex
* fauxmosexual
* fauxnetic
* fauxtatoes
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synthetic English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Of, or relating to synthesis.
(chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A new prescription
, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
Artificial, not genuine.
(grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.
Derived terms
* nucleosynthetic
* syntheticism
Noun
( en noun)
A synthetic compound.
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