staginess Definition

theatricality, melodramatics, stylization, didacticism, artificiality, triteness, woodenness, mawkishness, conventionality, pompousness, mise en scene, showiness, slightness, pretentiousness, clownishness, pathos, impishness, grandiloquence, histrionics, bravura, grotesqueness, artifice, suavity, lugubriousness, verisimilitude, literalness, pomposity, grand guignol, unoriginality, tautness, glibness, whimsicality, outlandishness, monumentality, sparseness, archness, wryness, poeticism, impassivity, brassiness, naturalism, subtlety, winsomeness, stylisation, profundity, shavian, overfamiliarity, knowingness, spareness, corniness, acerbity, anouilh, metafiction, absurdism, mozartian, emoting, daftness, slyness, drollness, inarticulateness, terseness, unconventionality, unshowy, facetiousness, grisliness, felicities, ruefulness, artfulness, chirpiness, boyishness, abjection, artlessness, illusionism, moroseness, steaminess, blankness, conceit, auteurism, unworldliness, nabokovian, gracelessness, grotesquerie, insipidity, dreaminess, shapelessness, taciturnity, interiority, inwardness, sumptuousness, affectless, melodrama, zinnemann, emotionality, earnestness, uptightness, indirectness, gaucherie, grotesquery, vapidness, mimesis,