artificiality

Definitions

The quality of being produced by humans rather than occurring naturally.

The quality of being insincere, affected, or lacking in genuine emotion.

Examples

The artificiality of the film's set design made it difficult for the audience to feel immersed in the story.

She felt a sense of artificiality in their conversation, as if they were both reading from a pre-written script.

Synonyms

insincerity affectation phoniness unnaturalness contrivance falseness pretension

Antonyms

sincerity authenticity genuineness naturalness honesty artlessness spontaneity