Contrivance

/kəntɹˈa‍ɪvəns/

/kənˈtɹaɪvəns/

[noun]

Contrivance

[NOUN]

a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

synonyms : appliance

the faculty of contriving; inventive skill

the act of devising something

synonyms : devisal

any improvised arrangement for temporary use

synonyms : lash-up

an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

synonyms : dodge

stratagem

an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.

a plot device or a literary technique that is used to resolve a difficult or complicated situation in an unexpected and somewhat unrealistic way

Examples

1. Only human art or science or art, human contrivance, can bring about peace.

2. As The Guardian notes when discussing the strange choice of wedding reading, "Gatsby is a contrivance, a performance, a seductive chimera, a fraud."

3. In other words, for Hobbes, authority and relations of authority do not arise naturally among us, but are rather, again, like civil science itself, the product of contrivance or art.

4. It's a CONTRIVANCE.

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