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I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
Philippe Petit

Meaning of "theatricality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THEATRICALITY

theatricality  [θɪˌætrɪˈkælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THEATRICALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Theatricality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES THEATRICALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Theatricality

"Theatricality" is the 20th episode of the American television series Glee. The episode was written and directed by series creator Ryan Murphy, and premiered on the Fox network on May 25, 2010. In "Theatricality", glee club member Tina Cohen-Chang has an identity crisis. The female club members and Kurt pay tribute to Lady Gaga, performing in a selection of her costumes, while the rest of the male club members perform as Kiss. Rachel meets her mother Shelby, the coach of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline, and Finn and his mother move in with Kurt and his father, leading to a confrontation between Kurt and Finn. The episode features cover versions of five songs, all of which were released as singles, available for digital download, and three of which are included on the soundtrack album Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers. "Theatricality" was watched by 11.5 million American viewers and received positive to mixed reviews from critics.

Definition of theatricality in the English dictionary

The first definition of theatricality in the dictionary is the condition of relating to the theatre or dramatic performances. Other definition of theatricality is the condition of being exaggerated and affected in manner or behaviour. Theatricality is also the condition of being grand and dramatic, as if part of a performance in a theatre.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THEATRICALITY


classicality
ˌklæsɪˈkælɪtɪ
comicality
ˌkɒmɪˈkælɪtɪ
criticality
ˌkrɪtɪˈkælɪtɪ
cyclicality
ˌsɪklɪˈkælɪtɪ
cylindricality
sɪˌlɪndrɪˈkælɪtɪ
ethicality
ˌeθɪˈkælɪtɪ
extrinsicality
ɪkˈstrɪnsɪˈkælɪtɪ
grammaticality
ɡrəmætɪˈkælɪtɪ
illogicality
ɪˌlɒdʒɪˈkælɪtɪ
impracticality
ɪmˌpræktɪˈkælɪtɪ
locality
ləʊˈkælɪtɪ
musicality
ˌmjuːzɪˈkælɪtɪ
physicality
ˌfɪzɪˈkælɪtɪ
practicality
ˌpræktɪˈkælɪtɪ
radicality
ˌrædɪˈkælɪtɪ
technicality
ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪtɪ
topicality
ˌtɒpɪˈkælɪtɪ
verticality
ˌvɜːtɪˈkælɪtɪ
vocality
vəʊˈkælɪtɪ
whimsicality
ˌwɪmzɪˈkælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THEATRICALITY

theatre-goer
theatre-in-the-round
theatreland
theatres-in-the-round
theatric
theatrical
theatrical agent
theatrical company
theatrical producer
theatricalism
theatricalize
theatrically
theatricalness
theatricals
theatricise
theatricism
theatricize
theatrics
theatromania
theatrophone

WORDS THAT END LIKE THEATRICALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
low-quality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality

Synonyms and antonyms of theatricality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «theatricality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THEATRICALITY

Find out the translation of theatricality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of theatricality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «theatricality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

戏剧
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

teatralidad
570 millions of speakers

English

theatricality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नाटकीयता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المسرحي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

театральность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

teatralidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নাটূকেপনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

théâtralité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Theatricality
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Theatralität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

芝居がかり
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

연극적임
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Theatricality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự diển tuồng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

theatricality
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नाटकीयपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

teatralliği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

teatralità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

teatralność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

театральність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

teatralitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θεατρικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

theatraliteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

theatricality
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

teatralitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of theatricality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THEATRICALITY»

The term «theatricality» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.216 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THEATRICALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «theatricality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «theatricality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about theatricality

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4 QUOTES WITH «THEATRICALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word theatricality.
1
Bryan Batt
My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.
2
Adam Lambert
People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
3
Philippe Petit
I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
4
Ann Powers
Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THEATRICALITY»

Discover the use of theatricality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to theatricality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Theatricality
This collection of specially-commissioned, accessible, essays explores that element of performance theory known as theatricality.
Tracy C. Davis, Thomas Postlewait, 2003
2
Theatricality as Medium
Beginning with Plato, Samuel Weber tracks the uneasy relationships among theater, ethics, and philosophy through Aristotle, the major Greek tragedians, Shakespeare, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Freud, Benjamin, Artaud, and many others who develop ...
Samuel Weber, 2009
3
Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the ...
With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood.
Michael Fried, 1980
4
Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music
This text situates the glam rock phenomenon historically and examines it as a set of performance strategies.
Philip Auslander, 2006
5
Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-century ...
He suggests that the theatricality which pervades these novels enforces social norms while introducing opportunities for novelists to resist them.
Joseph Litvak, 1992
6
Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship
In a significant reinterpretation of early Romanticism, Judith Pascoe shows how English literary culture in the 1790s came to be shaped by the theater and by the public's fascination with theater.
Judith Pascoe, 1997
7
Men in Women's Clothing: Anti-theatricality and ...
Laura Levine examines the ways in which Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson addressed a generation's anxieties about gender and the stage and identifies the way the same 'magical thinking' informed documents we much more readily associate with ...
Laura Levine, 1994
8
Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture
Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture offers the first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts, architecture and the theatre.
Caroline van Eck, Stijn Bussels, 2011
9
The Theatricality of Greek Tragedy: Playing Space and Chorus
Drawing on evidence from the surviving texts of tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Ley explains how scenes with actors were played in the open ground of the orchestra, often considered as exclusively the dancing place of the ...
Graham Ley, 2010
10
The Theatricality of Robert Lepage
The Theatricality of Robert Lepage studies several productions, including The Dragons' Trilogy, Vinci and Tectonic Plates, The Seven Streams of River Ota, Zulu Time, and The Far Side of the Moon.
Aleksandar Dundjerović, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THEATRICALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term theatricality is used in the context of the following news items.
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Audiences will enjoy comedy and theatricality of Hound of the …
Audiences will enjoy comedy and theatricality of Hound of the Baskervilles ... actors, and audiences will enjoy the comedy and theatricality of the entertainment. «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
2
The Hudsucker Proxy review – unlocks the theatricality of a Coen …
This adaptation, however, releases something that was always lurking inside the Coen brothers' 1994 movie: its theatricality. Co-presented by the Nuffield and ... «The Guardian, May 15»
3
BodyVox breathes theatricality into modern dance
In 2005, the future executive director of the Anchorage Concert Association, Jason Hodges, was watching a video of a man dancing with a backhoe. Hodges ... «Alaska Dispatch News, Mar 15»
4
“Baskerville” Features Sherlock Holmes in a World of Wackiness …
The story is, of course, full of suspense and thrilling drama, but Baskerville delights in breaking through the fourth wall to show its audience its clever theatricality, ... «Town Topics, Mar 15»
5
With Of Montreal, theatricality never required a stage
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we're talking about songs with a cappella interludes. «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Mar 15»
6
National Ballet collaborator is bringing theatricality back to ballet
Most critics in Britain and North America were enchanted by the production's theatricality, but not everyone was on board. The incisive American dance historian ... «The Globe and Mail, Mar 15»
7
Let the Right One In review – an uncanny love story of pure …
But there are also moments that leave story behind in the service of pure theatricality, using music and dance to convey convoluted emotional states that words ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
8
Gerard Way admits he misses 'the theatricality of My Chemical …
Now a solo artist after the band split up in 2013, Way spoke to NME about how things have changed in the last year, explaining: "I definitely miss the theatricality ... «Gigwise, Dec 14»
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Gerard Way: 'I miss the theatricality of My Chemical Romance'
"I definitely miss the theatricality of it a little bit," he said of his old band in the Christmas issue of NME, which is on newsstands now and available digitally. «NME.com, Dec 14»
10
Trillium Band, Featuring If/Then's Janet Krupin, Theatricality and …
If/Then actress Janet Krupin and musician-producer Alex Caraballo, who teamed up to create Trillium and recently released "The Aurora" EP, head to New York ... «Playbill.com, Dec 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Theatricality [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/theatricality>. May 2024 ».
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