dramaticity

English

Etymology

From dramatic +‎ -ity.

Noun

dramaticity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being dramatic.
   • 1890 April 1, Owen Graham, “The Mark of Cain”, in William Freeman, editor, Zealandia: A Monthly Magazine of New Zealand Literature, by New Zealand Authors, volume I, number 10, part IX (No Such Thing as Chance), section XXXIII, page 598:

     “You must blame me for that: as stage manager, with an eye to dramatic effect, I forbade it,” said the doctor; “though one might as well expect heat from an iceberg as extract a spark of—of dramaticity from either of you.”

   • 1901, Edward C. Strutt, “Prato”, in Fra Filippo Lippi, London: George Bell and Sons, page 145:

     But Fra Filippo was too fine a psychologist not to understand that in a similar theme the manifestation of grief was absolutely essential; he therefore had recourse to an ingenious stratagem, introducing in his composition the two female mourners, in whose features he sought to condense, so to say, all the emotion and dramaticity which he was debarred from expressing through the medium of his portrait figures.

   • 2002, Hernán Vidal, “Afterword: The Geopolitics of “Latino” Theater in the United States (Schemata of Possible Criteria for a Theatrical Anthropology)”, in Juli A. Kroll, transl., edited by Luis A. Ramos-García, The State of Latino Theater in the United States (Hispanic Issues; volume 29), New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 202:

     Obviously, in these three types of dramaticity, the parties use narratives involving national identity by invoking the cultural icons most favorable for legitimizing their interests.

   • 2013, Patrice Pavis, “On the frontiers of mise en scène”, in Joel Anderson, transl., Contemporary Mise en Scène: Staging Theatre Today, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 30:

     Theatricality and dramaticity are indivisible in Western dramaturgy, and they are also what enable the comparison and confrontation between European forms and cultural performances and performance practices from the rest of the world.

Synonyms

• dramaticness