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English

Etymology

First attested in 1548. From {{term|affectationem|affectātiōnem|lang=la}} (possibly via ) < {{term|affecto|affectō|I feign|lang=la}}.

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˌæf.ɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-affectation.ogg

Noun

An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
An unusual mannerism.

Synonyms

eccentricity, mannerism

Translations

Portuguese: afetação

Portuguese: afetação

ar:affectation fa:affectation fr:affectation io:affectation id:affectation hu:affectation ja:affectation pl:affectation pt:affectation ru:affectation vi:affectation tr:affectation

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Affectation \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.
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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.
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2. A striving after. [Obs.] --Bp. Pearson.
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3. Fondness; affection. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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WordNet affectation
n : a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn: mannerism,
pose, affectedness]

Moby Dictionary
Barnumism , Gongorism , act , acting , action , actions , activity , acts ,
address , affectedness , air , airs , appearance , artfulness , artifice ,
artificiality , attitudinizing , 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 , 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