| 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 |
| Main Entry: | affectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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
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| 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 |