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ARTIFICIALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("artificiality" is a kind of...):
unnaturalness (the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artificiality"):
staginess; theatricality (an artificial and mannered quality)
pretence; pretense; pretension (a false or unsupportable quality)
Derivation:
artificial (contrived by art rather than nature)
artificial (not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes)
