artifice Definition

ruse, gimmick, trick, device, wile, firework, artificiality, subterfuge, contrivance, artfulness, theatricality, pretension, subtlety, conceit, pretense, affectation, illusion, falseness, illusionism, staginess, pretentiousness, superficiality, showiness, knowingness, didacticism, profundity, sentimentality, verisimilitude, stylization, naturalism, stylisation, pompousness, gimmickry, grandiloquence, sublimity, naturalness, archness, pathos, triteness, grotesquerie, tawdriness, winsomeness, literalness, slyness, monumentality, poeticism, frippery, banality, metafiction, interiority, insubstantiality, obliqueness, mawkishness, conventionality, grand guignol, nuance, artistry, pomposity, aestheticism, concreteness, slickness, sentimentalism, whimsy, clownishness, indeterminacy, mise en scene, subversiveness, preciousness, prettiness, pictorialism, salaciousness, attitudinizing, spareness, artlessness, simulacrum, dreaminess, bombast, guilelessness, sappiness, formalism, abjection, indirectness, absurdity, pastiche, sensuousness, indirection, outlandishness, sleaziness, believability, corniness, spontaneity, eroticism, vapidity, whimsicality, ethereality, auteurism, facetiousness, ephemerality, inscrutability, cheesiness,