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Mannerism

Mannerism Meaning & Definition
Mannerism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mannerism?

[n] a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
[n] a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mannerism: affectation | foible | idiosyncrasy | pose

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mannerism: affectation | affectedness | airs | airs and graces | aroma | artfulness | artifice | artificiality | attribute | badge | brand | cachet | cast | character | characteristic | command of language | configuration | cut | differentia | differential | distinctive feature | earmark | eccentricity | euphemism | euphuism | exaggeration | expression of ideas | facade | false front | false show | fashion | feature | feeling for words | feigned belief | figure | flavor | form of speech | front | Gongorism | grace of expression | grandiloquence | gust | habit | hallmark | hyperelegance | hypocrisy | idiocrasy | idiosyncrasy | image | impress | impression | index | individualism | inflation | insincerity | keynote | lineaments | literary style | lugs | manner | manner of speaking | manneredness | mark | marking | mere show | minauderie | mode | mode of expression | mold | nature | oddness | odor | overelaboration | overelegance | overniceness | overrefinement | particularity | peculiar trait | peculiarity | personal style | preciosity | preciousness | pretense | pretension | pretentiousness | property | prunes and prisms | public image | purism | put-on | putting on airs | quality | queerness | quirk | rhetoric | savor | seal | sense of language | sham | shape | show | singularity | smack | specialty | stamp | strain | style | stylishness | stylistic analysis | stylistics | taint | tang | taste | the grand style | the plain style | the sublime | token | trademark | trait | trick | trick of behavior | unnaturalness | vein | way

See Also | attitude | distinctiveness | feigning | peculiarity | pretence | pretending | pretense | simulation | speciality | specialness | specialty

Mannerism In Webster's Dictionary

\Man"ner*ism\, n. [Cf. F. mani['e]risme.] Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural . . . . But a mannerism which does not sit easy on the mannerist, which has been adopted on principle, and which can be sustained only by constant effort, is always offensive. --Macaulay.

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