WORD STUDY

artificial

“Artificial” did not travel in a straight line from “made by people” to “fake.” These sources show separate branches through materials, senses, distrust, bodily support, modeled processes, and speculation.

9,240
year-by-year checks
1800—2019
fixed time span

01 / THE WORD BRANCHES

Five ways “artificial” branches.

Forty-eight phrases form five connected branches. Near and far circles only separate overlapping terms; swipe to read each branch.

9,240 YEARLY VALUES · 1800—2019

Two full-year views of the selected vocabulary.

5,250 positive yearly points across 29 exact two-word phrasesYEAR × NORMALIZED BOOK SHARE (LOG SCALE)
  • BODY
  • MIND
  • MATERIALS
  • SENSES
  • SOCIAL LIFE
2,640 yearly media-term points20-YEAR BANDS × EACH TERM’S OWN PEAK
  • OPTICAL
  • SOUND + FILM
  • BROADCAST
  • DIGITAL

body

Heart, kidney, limb, organ, respiration, and insemination name interventions connected to bodily life.

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02 / WHERE DISTRUST APPEARS

Where does distrust attach to “artificial”?

The cited phrases range from “artificial coloring” to “no artificial colors.” Their positions show time only—not the strength or popularity of the attitude.

1850–1900 · synthetic industrial goods · regulatory source

artificial coloring

This source places “artificial” in the context of synthetic industrial goods.FDA Color Additives History ↗

03 / MADE, REAL, OR SIMULATED

Made is not the same as fake.

These source cases separate how something was made from whether an event happened, an object looks realistic, or a voice was simulated.

The circle connects meanings; distance is not a score.

Read the same cited material three ways

Mechanical ventilation appears as an entry term under artificial respiration.

Showing relationship to a human function. Source chosen: mechanical ventilation.

FIVE SELECTED BRANCHES · SAME TWO-WORD BASELINE

How the selected phrase mix changes across 220 years.

0%25%50%75%100%18001850190019502019

Share of the 29 selected exact two-word phrases; 11-year moving window.

CLOSE FINDING

The evidence does not describe one line from made to fake.

Making, distrust, support, replacement, reproductive continuation, modeled processes, and speculative extensions remain distinct branches in the cited sources.

SOURCES / RIGHTS

This study makes 9,240 fixed year-by-year comparisons across 42 exact terms. The primary scatter and trend use only the 29 two-word phrases measured on the same scale; the large number is research coverage, not a count of books or word appearances.

7 dated sources locate distrust in time, five cited cases separate “made,” “real,” and “simulated,” and the final circles reread 25 cited passages about human functions. These counts describe material selected for this study—not every use of “artificial” in English. Source material remains credited to its original authors and publishers.

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