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noun
The quality of being artificial or produced unnaturally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: naturalness
noun
Something artificial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: artifice
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unnaturalness
Narrower terms: staginess, theatricality, pretension, pretense, pretence
History
Etymology tree English artificial Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English artificiality From artificial + -ity.
Across languages
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
