staginessn.
/ˈsteɪdʒɪnɪs/ 1. Stagy character or style; the quality of being stagy; theatrical mannerism.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > [noun] > theatrical quality
staginess1864
theatre1926
1864 Reader 7 May 598 There is not a trace of staginess to be detected.
1878 W. S. Jevons Methods Soc. Reform 10 The crudeness and staginess of the play need to be subdued.
1882 A. W. Ward Dickens vii. 206 In his earlier writings..there is much stageyness.
2. Of a seal or its skin (see stagy adj. 2).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > seal > of seal or skin: state of being out of condition
staginess1887
1887 H. W. Elliott in G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 488 These [sea-otter] skins..never show at any season those signs of shedding and staginess so marked in the seal.
1898 D. S. Jordan Fur Seals i. 66 The trouble here arises from a misunderstanding of what is meant by ‘staginess’. It does not designate any marked difference in quantity of the fur.
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