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Affectation Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Affectation? [n] a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display Synonyms \| Synonyms for Affectation: mannerism \| pose Related Terms \| Find terms related to Affectation: act \| acting \| action \| actions \| activity \| acts \| address \| affectedness \| air \| airs \| appearance \| artfulness \| artifice \| artificiality \| attitudinizing \| Barnumism \| bearing \| bedizenment \| behavior \| behavior pattern \| behavioral norm \| behavioral science \| big talk \| bluff \| bluffing \| carriage \| cheating \| color \| coloring \| command of language \| comportment \| conduct \| convolution \| culture pattern \| custom \| deception \| delusion \| demeanor \| deportment \| disguise \| dissemblance \| dissembling \| dissimulation \| doing \| doings \| euphemism \| euphuism \| exaggeration \| expression of ideas \| facade \| face \| fakery \| faking \| false air \| false front \| false show \| falsity \| fashion \| feeling for words \| feigning \| feint \| flashiness \| flatulence \| flatulency \| folkway \| form of speech \| four-flushing \| fraud \| front \| fulsomeness \| garishness \| gaudiness \| gestures \| gilt \| gloss \| goings-on \| Gongorism \| grace of expression \| grandiloquence \| grandioseness \| grandiosity \| guise \| high-flown diction \| humbug \| humbuggery \| hyperelegance \| imposture \| inflatedness \| inflation \| insincerity \| lexiphanicism \| literary style \| loftiness \| lugs \| luridness \| magniloquence \| maintien \| manner \| manner of speaking \| manneredness \| mannerism \| manners \| masquerade \| mere rhetoric \| meretriciousness \| method \| methodology \| methods \| mien \| mode \| mode of expression \| modus vivendi \| motions \| movements \| moves \| observable behavior \| orotundity \| ostentation \| ostentatious complexity \| outward show \| overelaboration \| overelegance \| overniceness \| overrefinement \| pattern \| peculiarity \| personal style \| platitudinous ponderosity \| playacting \| poise \| polysyllabic profundity \| pomposity \| pompous prolixity \| pompousness \| pontification \| port \| pose \| posing \| posture \| posturing \| practice \| praxis \| preciosity \| preciousness \| presence \| pretense \| pretension \| pretentiousness \| pretext \| procedure \| proceeding \| prose run mad \| purism \| representation \| rhetoric \| rhetoricalness \| seeming \| semblance \| sensationalism \| sense of language \| sententiousness \| sham \| show \| showiness \| simulacrum \| simulation \| social science \| speciousness \| stiltedness \| strain \| style \| stylistic analysis \| stylistics \| swelling utterance \| swollen phrase \| swollenness \| tactics \| tall talk \| the grand style \| the plain style \| the sublime \| tone \| tortuosity \| tortuousness \| trick \| tumidity \| tumidness \| turgescence \| turgidity \| unnaturalness \| varnish \| vein \| way \| way of life \| ways \| window dressing See Also \| attitude \| feigning \| pretence \| pretending \| pretense \| simulation Affectation In Webster's Dictionary \Af`fec*ta"tion\, n. [L. affectatio: cf. F. affectation.] 1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. ``An affectation of contempt.'' --Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. --Locke. 2. A striving after. [Obs.] --Bp. Pearson. 3. Fondness; affection. [Obs.] --Hooker.

Affectation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Affectation?

[n] a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

Synonyms | Synonyms for Affectation: mannerism | pose

Affectation In Webster's Dictionary

\Af`fec*ta"tion\, n. [L. affectatio: cf. F.
affectation.]
1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or
   real; false display; artificial show. ``An affectation of
   contempt.'' --Macaulay.

         Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of
         what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty
         that accompanies what is natural what is natural.
                                               --Locke.

2. A striving after. [Obs.] --Bp. Pearson.

3. Fondness; affection. [Obs.] --Hooker.

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