artificiality

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The concept of a year-round mountain resort took the area into a realm of artificiality that is no longer seen as viable.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

The mixture of digitally warped instrumentation that emphasizes its artificiality and cinematic string arrangements that evoke the melodrama of old Hollywood is pleasingly jarring and disorienting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Instead, the documentary is a star-studded, rose-colored recollection of better days, a look back at an era that didn’t seem so fraught with deception and morbid artificiality.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025

For example, he agreed with cinematographer Patrick Scola that shooting on 16mm film would add realism to a story taking place in a realm of artificiality.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

It is not surprising that the history of science is a problematic activity, because science itself constantly claims to escape from its own temporal specificity, its own artificiality.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton