UNNATURALNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unnaturalness mean? 

• UNNATURALNESS (noun)
  The noun UNNATURALNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles

  Familiarity information: UNNATURALNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNNATURALNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unnaturalness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unnaturalness"):

affectedness (the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others))

artificiality (the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally)

largeness; pretension; pretentiousness (the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth))

supernaturalism; supernaturalness (the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces)

Antonym:

naturalness (the quality of being natural or based on natural principles)

Derivation:

unnatural (speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression)