dramaticity

Noun

dramaticity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being dramatic.
   • “You must blame me for that: as stage manager, with an eye to dramatic effect, I forbade it,” said the doctor; “though one might as well expect heat from an iceberg as extract a spark of—of dramaticity from either of you.”1890 April 1, Owen Graham, “The Mark of Cain”, in William Freeman, editor, Zealandia: A Monthly Magazine of New Zealand Literature, by New Zealand Authors, volume I, number 10, part IX (No Such Thing...
   • But Fra Filippo was too fine a psychologist not to understand that in a similar theme the manifestation of grief was absolutely essential; he therefore had recourse to an ingenious stratagem, introducing in his composition the two female mourners, in whose features he sought to condense, so to say...1901, Edward C. Strutt, “Prato”, in Fra Filippo Lippi, London: George Bell and Sons, page 145

   Synonyms:

   dramaticness