[f. as prec. + -ITY; cf. reality.]
1. The quality or state of being artificial; artificial character or condition.
a. 1763. Shenstone, Ess., 105. Trees in hedges partake of their artificiality.
1845. R. Chambers, Vest. Creat., 251. It would imply a curious artificiality of arrangement in the creative design.
1879. Ward, Chaucer, 23. The artificiality and extravagance of the costumes of these times.
2. with pl. An artificial thing or characteristic.
1848. Miller, First Impr., ix. (1857), 153. His artificialities had perished, like the artificialities of another kind of the poets his contemporaries.
1851. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., I. 11. Book antiquarianisms and æsthetic artificialities.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., xv. 312. It is not an artificiality.
