theatricalismn.
The practice of what is theatrical; theatrical style or character; ‘staginess’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > theatrical or exaggerated behaviour
histrionicism1665
histrionisma1682
theatricalness1727
theatricality1837
play-actorism1851
theatricalism1854
performance1864
melodramatics1865
theatricism1872
camping1922
histrionics1922
theatric1929
amateur dramatics1984
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > spectacular, sensational, or dramatic display > [noun]
stage-work1649
scenery1726
theatricalness1727
dramatizing1808
show1822
theatricality1837
pyrotechny1845
theatricalism1854
sensational1861
sensationalism1862
sensationism1862
theatricism1872
theatricalization1875
dramaticism1878
dramatism1880
spectacularity1883
spectacularism1888
theatre1926
son et lumière1968
1854 Ld. Coleridge in Life I. 220 The dangers of sentimentalism and theatricalism in religion.
1884 J. W. Hales Notes & Ess. Shakespeare 73 There is nothing normal or calm, but incessant eccentricity and theatricalism.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 18 Apr. 2/3 The phrase has just enough of the declamatory quality in it to give it that touch of theatricalism which was dear to the heart of the man who spoke it.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > amateur actor
theatricalist1802
1802 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1803) 6 181 Pic-nic Theatricalists.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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