Dictionary

theatricality en · NOUN

Etymology

From theatrical + -ity.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Theatrical behaviour and mannerisms.
   • The contradictoriness and multifacetedness of identity is a constant theme in a play which deals so centrally with ideas of plays, illusion, rôle-playing and theatricality. 1991, Michael Mangan, “‘Break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue’”, in A Preface to Shakespeare’s Tragedies (Preface Books), London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, part 3 (Critical Analysis: […]), page 133:
   • However both theatricality and amphitheatricality find their clearest imagistic expression in the disruption of the landscape in which the doomed Orpheus performs his enchanting song to a 'theatre' of birds, animals and trees (11.22 Orphei... 2002 May 2, Philip Hardie, The Cambridge Companion to Ovid, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

antitheatricality

Synonyms

theatricalness · theatricity

Translations (8)

nb teatralskhet (theatrical behaviour and mannerisms) · ru театра́льность (theatrical behaviour and mannerisms) · sv teatralitet (theatrical behaviour and mannerisms) · pl teatralnie (theatrical behaviour and mannerisms) · fi teatraalisuus (theatrical behaviour and mannerisms) · nb teatralsk karakter (theatrical behaviour and mannerisms) · fr théâtralité (theatrical behaviour and mannerisms) · it teatralità (theatrical behaviour and mannerisms)