artificiality

Noun

Meaning

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

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Examples

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. Alfred North Whitehead

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. Lionel Barrymore

For a person of understanding, interacting with children is endlessly interesting. Here one sees the book of nature thrown open, stripped of artificiality. Adolf Freiherr Knigge

In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays. Will Self

I want to keep developing. I want to become relaxed in my own work and go deeper. Just growing and studying and trying new things and hopefully having professional access to work that's good and interesting. I don't want to be on the treadmill of artificiality. Gale Harold

The convention missionaries call modesty has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim -- anybody's diseased caprice. Mark Twain

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