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Artificiality

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The quality of being artificial or produced unnaturally.

n. Something artificial.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being artificial; appearance of art; insincerity.

n. That which is artificial; an artificial thing or characteristic.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally

Word Usage

"This question of naturalness as opposed to artificiality is not immediately pertinent to our problem, nor is the matter of optimism and pessimism, nor the biologic idea of survival."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

unnaturalness

Hyponym

theatricality pretension pretence pretense staginess

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

ostentation hollowness affectation insincerity falseness frivolity self-indulgence worldliness narrowness effeminacy