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Unnaturalness

noun

The quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles.

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"Unnaturalness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sui's show: there was nothing for the two men but to obey. But they felt, both of them, a great unnaturalness in being seated for ...

— The Affair of the Brains • Anthony Gilmore

... a permanent entity, and gives it a quasi-religious sanction. For primitive religion, as has been well said, disbelieves in death; most of the lower races believe both in a qualified immortality and in the non-reality or unnaturalness of death.[136] In regard to the kinship of a clan, death at any rate has no effect: the ...

— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler

... The third element of guilt lies in the unnaturalness of calumny. "My brethren, these things ought not so to be;" ought not—that is, they are unnatural. That this is St. James's meaning is evident from the second illustration which follows: "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place, sweet water ...

— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson

... understood that in such unfavourable circumstances my manner, my behaviour with people, was more than ever marked by unnaturalness and constraint. Even Madame Ozhogin—that creature dull-witted from her birth up—began to shun me, and at times did not know in what way to approach me. Bizmyonkov, always polite and ready to do services, avoided me. I fancied even at that time that I had in him ...

— The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

Words linked to "Unnaturalness" : pretension, quality, unnatural, artificiality, supernaturalism, largeness, naturalness, pretentiousness, supernaturalness, affectedness