theatricality

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English

Etymology

From theatrical +‎ -ity.

Noun

theatricality (countable and uncountable, plural theatricalities)

  1. Theatrical behaviour and mannerisms
    Synonyms: theatricalness, theatricity
    • 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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