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The quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles
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unnaturalness
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being unnatural.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unnatural \Un*nat"u*ral\ (?; 135), a. Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes. Syn: See Factitious . [1913 Webster] -- Un*nat"u*ral*ly , adv. -- Un*nat"u*ral*ness , n.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles [ant: naturalness ]
Usage examples of unnaturalness.
The unnaturalness of artificial speech corresponds to various aspects missing from it.
He was not opposed to carnality, although the Writ cautioned against impropriety and unnaturalness.
His voice quavered at the unnaturalness of the risk, not at the mere chanciness and danger of it.
They most definitely would not have covered the bare slopes with a jungle of thousands of wildly branching metal gnarls and knots—which, moreover, could not have been the work of engineers masking military targets under a web of pseudovegetation, since the unnaturalness of such camouflage would have betrayed itself immediately.