plaything vs artifact

plaything and artifact both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plaything	Yes	No	No	No
artifact	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, artifact is a hypernym of plaything; that is, artifact is a word with a broader meaning than plaything:

Other hypernyms of plaything include artefact.

plaything (noun)	artifact (noun)
an artifact designed to be played with	a man-made object taken as a whole