ARTIFICIALITY Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

artificiality

noun

Definition of artificiality

as in smoothness

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Recent Examples of artificiality Is the artificiality and structural restriction of the majority of the season a lure for a show on the verge of going thoroughly bonkers in its finale? — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026 Yet Voisard believes people are increasingly tuning into animal livestreams to escape artificiality. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026 Its very artificiality can be a turn-off. — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 28 Apr. 2026 No matter the role, that toughness was always there, a desire to push against the artificiality of acting to get at something true and lived-in within his characters. — Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2026 Like their future disciples in PC Music, Scritti Politti were giddy pop fans who approached the form as self-conscious outsiders, foregrounding its artificiality, pushing its bright colors to new extremes, aiming to make great pop records that also asked probing questions about what pop even is. — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 15 Feb. 2026 That level of eye-deceiving detail falters in wide shots, however, some of which suffer from unflattering flat lighting that in certain instances recall computer screensavers of yore, given their colorful artificiality. — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Dec. 2025 The films that manage to handle magic well either fully embrace their own artificiality (think Nightmare Alley or Santa Sangre) or delight in exposing the machinery of how the tricks work (think The Prestige). — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025 Instead, through the course of this play, the artificiality of 19th-century marital courting and the exaggerated heroism of war are gradually stripped away, allowing the characters’ true voices, true callings and true partners to eventually emerge. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025

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Noun

Its particular appeal lies in the combination of effortless power, exceptional smoothness and a very distinctive level of refinement.

— Morgan Korn, ABC News, 25 July 2026
Golden has first-round NFL draft capital, with terrific speed and the smoothness to match.

— Jake Ciely, New York Times, 22 July 2026

Definition of smoothness

Noun

This latest act of duplicity is a new low, even for the HFPA.

— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026
The detective-heroines (and especially the actress-detectives) in this canon are careful about how performance might be extended to social duplicity, dishonesty, and fraud—but the lady criminals of Victorian detective fiction cross this line easily.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026

Definition of duplicity

Noun

The easy, and increasingly convincing, fakery of artificial intelligence has arguably supercharged it.

— David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
That’s the deficiency side of integrity—where authenticity gives way to fakery, consistency erodes into unpredictability, and transparency slips into manipulation…But swing too far in the other direction, and the skyscraper becomes overly rigid—too stiff to sway with the wind.

— Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Definition of fakery

Noun

This formula decongests the skin and is great for those who want to improve skin texture and oiliness.

— Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 22 June 2026
This is why during pregnancy, some pre-existing skincare concerns, like chronic breakouts or oiliness, either completely vanish or temporarily worsen.

— Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 28 May 2026

Definition of oiliness

Noun

Assemble a scrapbook or photo album to curate your personal affectations, trinkets, and memories.

— Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 26 July 2026
The steering wheel is flat at the top and bottom—a race-car affectation that feels correct in here—and has a button for the Boost function and another to adjust the aero, but is otherwise refreshingly simple.

— Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 7 July 2026

Definition of affectation

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