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Affectation

//ˌæf.ɛkˈteɪ.ʃən//

Synonyms for "affectation" (218 found)

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Informal (24)

Adj, noun, verb, slang(5 words)

color trick pattern gilt posing

Name, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Noun, phrase, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, intj, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Noun, verb, slang(4 words)

style varnish masquerade method

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Name, noun, pron, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

port bluff sham

Intj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Noun, slang(2 words)

Adj, noun, slang(1 words)

General use (194)

Name, noun, verb(6 words)

strain aim manner guise acts motions

Noun, verb(34 words)

address practice gloss image mask conduct fashion pose conceit posture poise fraud disguise vein presence artifice pretension proceeding gesture snuffle

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pretext airs playacting bluffing feigning moves faking dissembling actions methods gestures attitudinizing posturing lugs

Adv, name, noun, verb(1 words)

Verb(2 words)

put on four-flushing

Noun(101 words)

representation pose carriage mode semblance appearance activity exaggeration simulacrum procedure delusion peculiarity deception pretense facade falseness ostentation falsity convolution methodology

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mannerism tactics sensationalism simulation artfulness doings gaudiness window dressing imposture hypocrisy mummery praxis unction flatulence pomposity insincerity folkway demeanor speciousness big talk grandiloquence movements dissemblance modus vivendi piety deportment meretriciousness social science loftiness dissimulation goings on fakery comportment euphuism goings-on preciosity humbuggery bedizenment turgidity euphemism tortuosity unnaturalness piousness way of life pompousness fulsomeness purism turgescence tumidity pretentiousness behavioral science public image luridness tortuousness swollenness stiltedness grandiosity garishness showiness artificiality affectedness flatulency preciousness self-righteousness flashiness stylistics tumidness magniloquence Gongorism orotundity lexiphanicism overrefinement sententiousness pontification overelegance overniceness inflatedness grandioseness rhetoricalness Barnumism overelaboration

Adj, noun, verb(7 words)

bearing custom coloring seeming feint acting cheating

Adj, name, noun, verb(1 words)

Name, noun(3 words)

inflation manners mien

Adj, noun(1 words)

Intj, noun, verb(1 words)

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personal style stylistic analysis the plain style the sublime sense of language high-flown diction ostentatious complexity platitudinous ponderosity polysyllabic profundity pompous prolixity prose run mad swelling utterance swollen phrase hyperelegance manneredness

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