unnaturalisticadj.

1852 A. J. Davis Approaching Crisis 58 It seems that he has forgotten or neglected to achieve the promised 'reconciliation' between the naturalistic and unnaturalistic forms of faith.

1863 New Path 1 27/1 That the attempt [i.e. to embody an abstract principle in a sculpture] is in the last degree unnaturalistic, is evident.

1872 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 7 160/1 Now I have a most un-naturalistic dislike to snakes and other reptiles.

1920 D. G. Hogarth Hittite Seals iii. 59 In its subject..should be noted the unnaturalistic rendering of horns.

1982 Philos. Rev. 91 301 The last two chapters describe how..prescientific, unnaturalistic epistemology might come to be revised in the course of scientific developments.

2003 K. Thompson Storytelling in Film & Television iv. 115 Lynch's use of slow motion, of dream imagery, and of bright, unnaturalistic color recalls techniques of 1920s German Expressionism.