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单词 artificiality
释义 artificiality|ˌɑːtɪfɪʃɪˈælɪtɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ity; cf. reality.]
1. The quality or state of being artificial; artificial character or condition.
a1763Shenstone Ess. 105 Trees in hedges partake of their artificiality.1845R. Chambers Vest. Creat. 251 It would imply a curious artificiality of arrangement in the creative design.1879Ward Chaucer 23 The artificiality and extravagance of the costumes of these times.
2. with pl. An artificial thing or characteristic.
1848Miller First Impr. ix. (1857) 153 His artificialities had perished, like the artificialities of another kind of the poets his contemporaries.1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 11 Book antiquarianisms and æsthetic artificialities.1875Whitney Life Lang. xv. 312 It is not an artificiality.
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