Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Theatricality.
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- noun The state or condition of being
theatrical .
Etymologies
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theatrical + -ness
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Examples
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Titian is massive and wonderful: perhaps indeed too massive in the conception of the Madonna, for the suggestion of flight is lacking; but it has an earthiness, even a theatricalness, which one cannot forget, superb though that earthiness may be.
A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903
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(Lavrétzky was not mistaken: Márya Dmítrievna had retained from her boarding-school days a passion for a certain theatricalness); "they amuse you; but others suffer from them.
A Nobleman's Nest Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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