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artificialness

American  
[ahr-tuh-fish-uhl-nis] / ˌɑr təˈfɪʃ əl nɪs /

noun

  1. the quality or fact of being artificial, fake, or synthetic.


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First he tried making it with just pistachios, but he says, "It didn't have the same, I hate to say it, artificialness to it."

From Salon Apr. 10, 2023

At the same time, the pictures reveal the artificialness of the color, highlighting darker hair strands to some degree in every piece.

From New York Times Aug. 8, 2018

Fine old ruins of what had once been symmetric lounges of stone and turf, they bore every mark both of artificialness and age, and were, undoubtedly, made by the Buccaneers.

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman

Must I be forced to speak with a plainness that will, by comparison, make all my previous plainness seem the very essence of polite artificialness?

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von

But, the more one meditates on humanity, the more one becomes disgusted with its artificialness and bad taste.

From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by Roussel, John

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