affectation

Roget category 855

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.2. Discriminative affections

#855. Affectation

noun

affectation — affectedness etc. adj. — acting a part etc. v. — pretense etc. (falsehood) 544, (ostentation) 882 — boasting etc. 884.
charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity — pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism — teratology etc. (altiloquence) 577.
mannerism, simagree, grimace.
conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism.
stiffness, formality, buckram — prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism — mauvais honte, false shame.
affector, performer, actor — pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist — grimacier — lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule [Fr.], bas bleu [Fr.], blue stocking, poetaster — prig — charlatan etc. (deceiver) 548 — petit maitre etc. (fop) 854 — flatterer etc. 935 — coquette, prude, puritan.

verb

affect, act a part, put on — give oneself airs etc. (arrogance) 885 — boast etc. 884 — coquet — simper, mince, attitudinize, pose — flirt a fan — overact, overdo.

adjective

affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum — canting, insincere.
not natural, unnatural — self-conscious — maniere — artificial — overwrought, overdone, overacted — euphuist etc. 577.
stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified — finical, finikin — mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental.

phrase

conceit in weakest bodies strongest works" [Hamlet].

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