Histrionicism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The histrionic art; stageplaying. uncountable
"On the one hand, he considered it almost impossible for a woman to be so disingenuous; on the other hand, how could this girl have taught herself, in the solitude of a savage island, a species of histrionicism which women in London circles strove for years to acquire, and rarely acquired in any perfection?"
Example
More examples"On the one hand, he considered it almost impossible for a woman to be so disingenuous; on the other hand, how could this girl have taught herself, in the solitude of a savage island, a species of histrionicism which women in London circles strove for years to acquire, and rarely acquired in any perfection?"
Etymology
From histrionic + -ism.
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