staginess

She carried herself with supreme grace; there was not the faintest suspicion of staginess in any one of her movements.

And when he did, Sweets almost laughed at the staginess and absurdity of what he said.

The staginess of things infected or seemed to infect even Miss Irene Vanbrugh.

For, although the idea was excellent and proved so, its staginess, its artificiality cannot be denied.

The humour of Beppo is the form in which naturalness overcomes the staginess and artificiality of Byron's earlier works.