Synthetic | Word Synthetic at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
Counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic
`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition
Limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology

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