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UNNATURALNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unnaturalness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unnaturalness"):
affectedness (the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others))
artificiality (the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally)
largeness; pretension; pretentiousness (the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth))
supernaturalism; supernaturalness (the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces)
Antonym:
naturalness (the quality of being natural or based on natural principles)
Derivation:
unnatural (speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression)
