sintética

Sintética is the feminine form of the adjective sintético in Spanish and Portuguese, used to describe something produced by synthesis or created artificially rather than occurring in nature. It commonly appears with nouns referring to materials or products, such as fibra sintética, color sintético, or medicina sintética. The term functions primarily as an adjective, but in some contexts can be used informally as a noun to denote synthetic substances or products.

The word derives from Latin syntheticus, via Greek synthetikos, formed from sun- “together” and thesis “placing.” In both languages the form is accentuated as sintético in Spanish and sintética in both Spanish and Portuguese. The concept covers a wide range of fields where artificial construction or assembly is involved.

In philosophy, especially in Kantian traditions, the term juicio sintético appears to describe a proposition whose predicate adds information not contained in the subject concept, in contrast with juicios analíticos. These synthetic judgments can be a priori or a posteriori, depending on the context, and play a central role in debates about the nature of knowledge and experience.

In linguistics, sintética or lengua sintética refers to languages characterized by significant morphological inflection, where grammatical relationships are expressed through affixes and internal word changes rather than isolated words. This contrasts with analytic or isolating languages, where syntax relies more on word order and separate function words. In science and industry, synthetic materials and processes—such as química sintética and productos sintéticos—cover a broad range of man-made substances produced through chemical synthesis or artificial design.

See also: sintético, sintetizar, fibra sintética, química sintética, lenguas sintéticas.