Comment by yummybrainz
12 hours ago
I think synthetic ~ synthesized in this context, as opposed to "not real".
Sense 4a1 here, not 4c: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synthetic
12 hours ago
I think synthetic ~ synthesized in this context, as opposed to "not real".
Sense 4a1 here, not 4c: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synthetic
I guess I just think of "synthetic grass", like AstroTurf and associate "synthetic" with non-real.
Unrelated, but does anyone else find the adjacent (4b) definition of 'synthetic' to be unusually unusual, in a way few definitions in a dictionary are?
Without anything redacted, definition 4b is "devised, arranged, or fabricated for special situations to imitate or replace usual realities"?
Seems okay to me