Artificiality is the quality of being artificial—made or manufactured as opposed to occurring naturally. Artificial is often used as the opposite of natural. A close synonym of artificial is synthetic.

What is literary artificiality?

Artificiality often carries with it the implication of being false, counterfeit, or deceptive. The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Rhetoric: Naturalness is persuasive, artificiality is the contrary; for our hearers are prejudiced and think we have some design against them, as if we were mixing their wines for them.

How do you use artificiality in a sentence?

Evidently she could speak of Russia's misfortunes with a certain artificiality , but her brother was too near her heart and she neither could nor would speak lightly of him.