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theatricality

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English

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Etymology

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From theatrical +‎ -ity.[1]

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Noun

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theatricality (usually uncountable, plural theatricalities)

  1. Theatrical behaviour and mannerisms.
    Synonyms: theatricalness, theatricity
    • 1991, Michael Mangan, “‘Break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue’”, in A Preface to Shakespeare’s Tragedies (Preface Books), London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, part 3 (Critical Analysis: […]), page 133:
      The contradictoriness and multifacetedness of identity is a constant theme in a play which deals so centrally with ideas of plays, illusion, rôle-playing and theatricality.
    • 2002 May 2, Philip Hardie, The Cambridge Companion to Ovid, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
      However both theatricality and amphitheatricality find their clearest imagistic expression in the disruption of the landscape in which the doomed Orpheus performs his enchanting song to a 'theatre' of birds, animals and trees (11.22 Orphei...

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References

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  1. ^ “theatricality, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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