meretriciousnessn.
/ˌmɛrᵻˈtrɪʃəsnəs/, U.S. /ˌmɛrəˈtrɪʃəsnəs/ The quality or fact of being meretricious; showy superficiality; tawdriness.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally
decoruma1568
humoura1568
variety1597
strength1608
uniformity1625
barbarity1644
freedom1645
boldness1677
correctness1684
clinquant1711
unity1712
contrast1713
meretriciousness1727
airiness1734
pathos1739
chastity1760
vigour1774
prettyism1789
mannerism1803
serio-comic1805
actuality1812
largeness1824
local colour1829
subjectivitya1834
idealism1841
pastoralism1842
inartisticalitya1849
academicism1852
realism1856
colour contrast1858
crampedness1858
niggling1858
audacity1859
superreality1859
literalism1860
pseudo-classicism1861
sensationalism1862
sensationism1862
chocolate box1865
pseudo-classicality1867
academism1871
actualism1872
academicalism1874
ethos1875
terribilità1877
local colouring1881
neoclassicism1893
mass effect1902
attack1905
verismo1908
kitsch1921
abstraction1923
self-consciousness1932
surreality1936
tension1941
build-up1942
sprezzatura1957
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] > specious quality
colourableness1571
plausibleness1598
speciosity1608
seemingness1640
plausibility1649
speciousness1665
meretriciousness1727
meretricious1837
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Meretriciousness.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. (1860) xxi. 343 The face [of the Venus de Medici] has the very worst look of meretriciousness, which is want of feeling.
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 118 Its generally dauby meretriciousness.
1892 T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer III. vii. 181 The outspokenness of the original has been generally..omitted. For it, however, there has been substituted a veiled coarseness and meretriciousness.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 24 July 13/2 He attempted to..ride two horses named ‘Wife’ and ‘Mistress’ and found himself going down the path strewn with the stones of infidelity and meretriciousness.
1980 F. Warner Light Shadows x. 43 All the dilettante meretriciousness of a Sunday poet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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