Artificiality
[,ɑːtɪfɪʃɪ'ælətɪ]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
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Examples
- However this may be, there can be no doubt that a peculiar artificiality attaches to much of what is learned in schools. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Well, yes; but such artificiality is needed in these days of easy communication and cosmopolitan races. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- To Dorothea this was adorable genuineness, and religious abstinence from that artificiality which uses up the soul in the efforts of pretence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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