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Definition of Theatricality
1. Noun. An artificial and mannered quality.
Generic synonyms: Artificiality
Derivative terms: Stagy, Theatrical, Theatrical
Definition of Theatricality
1. Noun. theatrical behaviour and mannerisms ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Theatricality
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Theatricality
Literary usage of Theatricality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Path of the Modern Russian Stage: And Other Essays by Alexander Bakshy (1918)
"But it will be asked whether this strange " theatricality," which seems to have
been so ... The answer is that there is theatricality and theatricality. ..."
2. Witnesses of the Light: Being the William Belden Noble Lectures for 1903 by Washington Gladden (1903)
"There, the murder is out; and if there be any one who cannot esteem a character
tainted with theatricality, why then he must leave Victor Hugo unhonored. ..."
3. The New Movement in the Theatre by Sheldon Cheney (1914)
"The younger men who have worked with him necessarily have suffered from this
taint of theatricality. Thus one may trace the faults as well as the virtues of ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
".His irreverence, his contempt for propriety, his oj>en-mouthed egotism, his
language about women, his theatricality, may not now shock all Englishmen as ..."
5. Poetry and Prose: Being Essays on Modern English Poetry by Adolphus Alfred Jack (1912)
"The theatricality continues, but the drama is now no longer Childe Harold, ...
He was not careful to distinguish between a theatricality almost pure and a ..."
6. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Carlyle, Fr. Her., Pt. II. Bk. I. ch. ix. Its exaggeration, its theatricality,
were especially calculated to catch the eye of a boy.—C'. ..."
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