1. Hypernyms ("Artificiality" is a kind of): unnaturalness (the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles)

2. Artificiality - the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally unnaturalness - the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles staginess, theatricality - an artificial and mannered quality pretence, pretension, pretense - a false or unsupportable quality

3. Artificiality: 1 n the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally Types: staginess , theatricality an artificial and mannered quality pretence , pretense , pretension a false or unsupportable quality Type of: unnaturalness the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles

4. In order for Milton to maintain the unnaturalness of hands in print culture -- and hence justify the excision of licensing hands -- he must maintain as discrete categories the Bodiless author who prints his mind, and the licensor with "overseeing fist."