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Affectation

//ˌæf.ɛkˈteɪ.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. countable, uncountable

    "This poem is strongly tinctured with those pedantic affectations concerning the passion of love ..."

  2. 2
    a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display wordnet
  3. 3
    An unusual mannerism. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    An ostentatious fondness for something. countable, rare, uncountable, with-of

    "The grace diuineſt Mercvrie hath done me, / In this vouchſafde diſcouerie of himſelfe, / Binds my obſeruance in the vtmoſt terme / Of ſatisfaction, to his godly will: / Though I profeſſe (without the affectation / Of an enforc’d, and form’d auſteritie) / I could be willing to enioy no place / With ſo vnequall natures."

Etymology

From Middle French affectation and its etymon Latin affectātiōnem, from affectō (“I feign”). By surface analysis, affect + -ation.

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