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Definition of Artificiality
1. Noun. The quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally.
Specialized synonyms: Staginess, Theatricality, Pretence, Pretense, Pretension
Derivative terms: Artificial, Artificial
Definition of Artificiality
1. n. The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
Definition of Artificiality
1. Noun. The quality of being artificial or produced unnaturally. ¹
2. Noun. Something artificial. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Artificiality
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Artificiality
Literary usage of Artificiality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"While most of these poems are simple and effective, many of his original poems
are marred by a laboured artificiality, acrostics and other metrical devices ..."
2. The Ancient Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1881)
"I. Its barrenness and artificiality.—Return to nature and sentiment.—II. ...
Barrenness and artificiality are the two traits of this society, ..."
3. The Foundations of Psychology by Jared Sparks Moore (1921)
"The artificiality of Science.—If it is true that science ignores value, then the
artificiality of scientific method, the abstractness of its content, ..."
4. Mars as the Abode of Life by Percival Lowell (1908)
"A CORNER OF MARS, JUNE io, 1907 But long before the catalogue of geometric
artificiality curiosities had drawn to its close, — for it were wearisome to ..."
5. The Bookman (1903)
"artificiality, the concession to your moral- nothing incongruous or forced, yet
every- loving Briton ceases. Each picture taken thing so chosen as to shed ..."
6. The School as a Social Institution: An Introduction to the Study of Social by Charles Leonidas Robbins (1918)
"There can be no j^c^ £ doubt that there is a strong tendency toward such overcoming
artificiality in all institutions and professions. dency"o- In the ..."
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