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synthetica

The act of being fake (synthetic) not trying to be someone your told to be. Synthetica is also the title of Metric 5th album and a Metric song.
Emily Haines: So hard, hard to resist synthetica! We're all the time confined to fit the mold, but I won't ever let them make a loser of my soul.
by I Love Emily Haines December 9, 2013
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Synthetic Friday

Originally coined on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, a Synthetic Friday occurs on a Thursday preceding a Friday in which the market is closed. Since there is no work on Friday, Thursday essentially becomes like a Friday. The word synthetic is used and derived from an option strategy called a Synthetic Long Stock, in which a trader buys a call and shorts a put, each with the same strike price (there are different variations of this strategy/trade.)
Market Maker A: "The market is closed tomorrow since it is Good Friday."
Market Maker B: "Nice, today's a Synthetic Friday."
Market Maker A: "Let's get bombed."
by SyntheticFriday April 1, 2010
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synthetic gunfire

The sound of gunfire from a handgun, rifle, automatic weapon, etc. created solely by hardware or computer software synthesis. Found most frequently in computer video game or demo choons.

No guns are fouled and no poor, innocent, helpless, defenseless bullets are damaged or destroyed when synthetic gunfire is employed.
The title zax for the Commodore Amiga video game, "Datastorm" is just loaded with synthetic gunfire! How kewl!!!
by Telephony October 20, 2015
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synthetic hi-hats

The sound of a hi-hat (a pair of cymbals on a stand with a foot pedal that is used to open & close them; thus changing the sound that they make when struck with drumsticks) created solely by synthesizer hardware or computer software synthesis.

Most frequently heard in electronic music ("electronica" is the name of the actual musical genre).

No real hi-hats are damaged or destroyed when synthetic hi-hats are employed.
The song, "Move to the Beat" by the electronica group Monkey Zound has synthetic hi-hats in it! How kewl!
by Telephony November 14, 2015
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Synthetic

Basic or Fake; a person (usually caucasian and female) who is fake on social media and portrays themself as a better person than they really are
Tiffany is so synthetic. She is smiling in all her pictures even though she is a total bitch.
by Jubruption February 1, 2016
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synthetic materialism

A framework of material reality as a manifestation of the irreversible nature of linear time

Posits linear time, material reality, and history as illusions or antitheses of Nietzsche's nihilism.

The synthesis of Karl Marx's dialectical materialism
Synthetic materialism argues that there is no history and by extension that there is no material reality.

Rather than material reality creating the illusion of a past, synthetic materialism argues that the past creates the illusion of material reality
by sandraxine December 15, 2017
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Asthetic

A specific style or look that is trying to be achieved
This is my asthetic. This decoration will match my asthetic.
by JTjtJTjt5424 November 25, 2017
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