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Main Entry: affectation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretended behavior to make an impression

Synonyms:

air, airs, appearance, artificiality, facade, false front, front, going Hollywood, imitation, insincerity, mannerism, pose, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, putting on airs, sham*, show, showing off, simulation

Antonyms:

naturalness, simplicity
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Main Entry: affectation
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
ceremonial, Quakerish, ad captandum, affected, apopathetic, aprioristic, arbitrary, arrogant, artificial, assuming, assumptive, audacious, aweless, barefaced, baronial, beauish, big-sounding, bloated with pride, blown, bluff, blustering, boldfaced, brazen, brazen-faced, buckish, bumptious, cavalier, ceremonious, conceited, consequential, contumelious, coxcombical, dandified, dashing, dead to shame, demure, devil-may-care, dictatorial, dignified, disdainful, domineering, dramatic, egolatrous, egotistic, egotistical, en grande tenue, endimanche, euphuistic, fastuous, fine, finical, finikin, fire-eating, flaming, flashing, flashy, flatulopetic, flaunting, flippant, flushed, foppish, formal, forward, free and easy, fripperous, froufrou, full of affectation, full of sound and fury, garish, gaudy, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a peacock, gaudy as a tulip, gay, glittering, grand, haughty, hauteur, hectoring, high, high and mighty, high-flowing, high-flown, high-handed, high-mettled, high-minded, high-plumed, high-souled, high-sounding, high-toned, hufty-tufty, imperious, impertinent, impudent, in Sunday clothes, in best bib and tucker, in buckram, inflated, insolent, intolerant, janty, jaunty, la-di-da, lofty, lofty-minded, lordly, lost to shame, magisterial, magnificent, majestic, malapert, mimsy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, not natural, obnoxious, on one's high horses, on one's high ropes, on stilts, orgulous, ostensible, ostentatious, overacted, overbearing, overdone, overweening, overwise, overwrought, palatial, paughty, pedantic, perked up, pert, pompous, pragmatical, precocious, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, prim, proud, proud as Lucifer, proud as a peacock, proud-crested, prudish, prunk, puffed up, punctilious, puritanical, purse-proud, rakish, recherché, ritual, roistering, rollicking, saucy, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-confident, self-conscious, self-flattering, self-glorious, self-opinionated, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, sentimental, shameless, showy, simpering, smug, solemn, spectacular, splendid, stagey, starch, starched, starchy, stately, stiff, stiff-necked, stilted, strait-laced, stuck up, sumptuous, superbious, supercilious, swaggering, swollen, theatrical, thrasonic, too-too, turgid, ultracrepidarian, unabashed, unblushing, unceremonious, unconstrained, unctuous, unnatural, vain, vain as a peacock, vainglorious, vaporing, wise in one's own conceit, would be
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Affectation.
Category: 2. Discriminative Affections

Synonyms:

-nouns
affectation; affectedness; acting a part; pretense (falsehood), (ostentation) [more]; boasting., charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology (altiloquence)., mannerism, simagrée, 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, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan (deceiver); petit maitre (fop); flatterer; coquette, prude, puritan.
-verbs
affect, act a part, put on; give oneself airs (arrogance); boast; coquet; simper, mince, attitudinize, pose; flirt a fan; overact, overdo.
-adjectives
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., 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.
-phrases
"conceit in weakest bodies strongest works" [Hamlet].
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Main Entry: act
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretended behavior

Synonyms:

affectation, attitude, bit*, chaser, dissimilation, fake, false front, feigning, front, performance, phony, pose, posture, pretense, put-on, sham, show, shuck and jive, simulation, soft soap, stall, stance, stunt, sweet talk
Notes: an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act
Main Entry: air
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: distinctive quality or character; style

Synonyms:

address, affectation, ambience, appearance, atmosphere, aura, bearing, comportment, demeanor, deportment, effect, feel, feeling, flavor, impression, look, manner, mannerism, mien, mood, pose, presence, property, quality, semblance, tone
Main Entry: display
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: public showing; spectacle

Synonyms:

act, affectation, arrangement, array, arrayal, blaze, bravura, dash, demonstration, example, exhibit, exhibition, expo, exposition, exposure, fanfare, flourish, for show, frame-up, frippery, front, grandstand play, layout, manifestation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pageant, panorama, parade, pedantry, pomp, presentation, pretension, pretentiousness, revelation, sample, scheme, shine, showboat, splash, splendor, splurge, spread, unfolding, vanity

Antonyms:

hiding
Main Entry: fad
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: craze

Synonyms:

affectation, amusement, caprice, chic, conceit, cry, custom, dernier cri, eccentricity, fancy, fantasy, fashion, fool notion, frivolity, furor, hobby, humor, in, in thing, innovation, kick, kink, latest word, mania, mode, new look, newest wrinkle, passing fancy, passion, quirk, rage, sport, style, thing, trend, vagary, vogue, whim, whimsy, wrinkle

Antonyms:

standard, tradition
Main Entry: hypocrisy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deceitfulness, pretense

Synonyms:

affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness

Antonyms:

forthrightness, honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth
Main Entry: idiosyncrasy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: oddity, quirk

Synonyms:

affectation, bit, characteristic, distinction, eccentricity, feature, habit, mannerism, peculiarity, singularity, trait, trick
Main Entry: manner
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person's behavior, conduct

Synonyms:

address, affectation, affectedness, air, appearance, aspect, bearing, comportment, demeanor, deportment, idiosyncrasy, look, mannerism, mien, peculiarity, presence, style, tone, turn, way
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