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THEATRICALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does theatricality mean?
• THEATRICALITY (noun)
The noun THEATRICALITY has 1 sense:
1. an artificial and mannered quality
Familiarity information: THEATRICALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An artificial and mannered quality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
staginess; theatricality
Hypernyms ("theatricality" is a kind of...):
artificiality (the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally)
Derivation:
theatrical (suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater)
theatrical (of or relating to the theater)
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