ARTIFICIAL

adjective Date: 14th century humanly contrived often on a natural model ; man-made , 2. having existence in legal, economic, or political theory, caused or produced by a human and especially social or political agency , artful , cunning , 4. lacking in natural or spontaneous quality , imitation , sham , based on differential morphological characters not necessarily indicative of natural relationships , ~ity noun ~ly adverb ~ness noun