Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being artificial; appearance of art; insincerity.
- noun That which is artificial; an artificial thing or characteristic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The quality of being
artificial or producedunnaturally . - noun countable Something artificial.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally
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Examples
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But this would be hopelessly burdensome, so budgets are used instead. we might argue that the cost of this artificiality is less than than the cost of weighing everything on an organization-wide basis.
Government Incentives, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This question of naturalness as opposed to artificiality is not immediately pertinent to our problem, nor is the matter of optimism and pessimism, nor the biologic idea of survival.
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Instead they create a certain artificiality with which to sift through reality until it reaches its purest possible form.
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We seek artificiality, which is an organized and optimized signal coming from an astronomical environment from which neither it nor anything like it is either expected or observed: Very modest complexity, found out of context.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Shostak wrote: "We seek artificiality, which is an ** organized and optimized signal**"
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Because the thing I didn't like about Moulin Rouge was its artificiality, which is the same thing I don't like in Wes Anderson movies or Napoleon Dynamite can that opinion be distilled to earn someone a million dollars?
Archive 2008-12-01 The Brillig Blogger 2008
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Because the thing I didn't like about Moulin Rouge was its artificiality, which is the same thing I don't like in Wes Anderson movies or Napoleon Dynamite can that opinion be distilled to earn someone a million dollars?
Epic Movie The Brillig Blogger 2008
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The audience did not terrify her, nor the lights, nor the darkness, nor the queer smell of dust and paint and artificiality, that is a necessary part of the background of stage life.
The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World Margaret Vandercook
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Yet here, too, his artificiality is a serious blemish, his lamentations for the loss of the _pueri delicati_ of friends do not, and can hardly be expected to, ring true, and the same blemish affects even the poems where he laments his own loss.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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The hills and dales in the Green Park are perfect -- their artificiality is their beauty.
Celibates 1892
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