ARTIFICIALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artificiality mean? 

• ARTIFICIALITY (noun)
  The noun ARTIFICIALITY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ARTIFICIALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTIFICIALITY (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)