fictitiousness

Fortunes by Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, who point out the fictitiousness of the distinction of domestic (private) and business (public) worlds, and also the gendering of that polarity -- "public was not really public and private not really private" (quoted 131) -- responsibilities of a middle-class woman included the staging of social-class status, in part by the display of stage props including the Keepsake with its fake imagery of privacy.

Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L. 2000

For those who make the objects of mathematics alone exist apart from sensible things, seeing the difficulty about the Forms and their fictitiousness, abandoned ideal number and posited mathematical.

Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

That ours is a pseudo-existence, and that all appearances in it partake of its essential fictitiousness --

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

When it became apparent to the cleverest of them that no such superhuman guidance existed, and that their secularist systems had all the fictitiousness of "revelation" without its poetry, there was no escaping the conclusion that all the good that man had done must be put down to his arbitrary will as well as all the evil he had done; and it was also obvious that if progress were

The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring George Bernard Shaw 1903

He threw fictitiousness into his very gait, even now, when there was nobody to see him, and struck at stems of wild parsley with his regimental switch as he had used to do when soldiering was new to him, and life in general a charming experience.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

The scow episode is really a sublime burst of invention; but it does not thrill, because the inaccuracy of the details throws a sort of air of fictitiousness and general improbability over it.

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences Mark Twain 1872

The fictitiousness of such conceptions is quite too evident.

The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871

Thus, some make comedy a representation of mean and others of bad men; some think that its essence consists in the unimportance, others in the fictitiousness of the transaction.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

I also have every right to expose him and disseminate the truth behind his fictitiousness.

Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

The object is listed on eBay with that tall tale as its descriptor (its fictitiousness is plainly stated).

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