Definition of Operatics

1. Noun. exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics ¹

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Definition of Operatics

1. operatic [n] - See also: operatic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Operatics

operant
operant behaviour
operant conditioning
operantly
operants
operas
operate
operate on
operated
operatee
operates
operatic
operatic star
operatical
operatically
operatics
operating
operating(a)
operating-room
operating-system
operating-theatre
operating budget
operating capability
operating capital
operating concept
operating cost
operating cycle
operating expense
operating expenses
operating instructions

Literary usage of Operatics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ruskin, Rossetti, Preraphaelitism: Papers 1854 to 1862 by William Michael Rossetti (1899)
"We were late and ill-pleased, discomfort and heat fierce and intolerable, acting (English operatics) do.; altogether before it was over I felt ill, ..."

2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"as the years make ever more prominent its phoney operatics —Times Literary Supp., 4 Jan. 1968 . . . who has amassed over 40 phoney degrees himself in five ..."

3. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1859)
"... it is a pretty, quiet, girlish part, that could be played hy any young lady in a case of amateur theatricals,—or, rather operatics —in a drawing-room, ..."

4. Reminiscences of the Opera by Benjamin Lumley (1864)
"... remaining early season, and never had Lenten operatics been so successful a speculation to any previous manager. To Mario the past had been forgiven. ..."

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