Artificialism

/ɑrtɪˈfɪʃəlɪzəm/ noun

A philosophical or aesthetic position that values or emphasizes the artificial, constructed, or man-made over the natural.

From 'artificial' + '-ism' (doctrine or practice). Emerged as a philosophical term in the 19th and 20th centuries to describe theoretical positions favoring artifice.

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