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yummybrainz • today at 5:14 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I think synthetic ~ synthesized in this context, as opposed to "not real".

Sense 4a1 here, not 4c: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synthetic


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ZephyrP • today at 7:12 AM

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"?