THESAURUS
affectation
Barnumism, Gongorism, act, acting, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectedness, air, airs, appearance, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, attitudinizing, bearing, bedizenment, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, big talk, bluff, bluffing, carriage, cheating, color, coloring, command of language, comportment, conduct, convolution, culture pattern, custom, deception, delusion, demeanor, deportment, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, doing, doings, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression of ideas, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, fashion, feeling for words, feigning, feint, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, folkway, form of speech, four-flushing, fraud, front, fulsomeness, garishness, gaudiness, gestures, gilt, gloss, goings-on, grace of expression, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, guise, high-flown diction, humbug, humbuggery, hyperelegance, imposture, inflatedness, inflation, insincerity, lexiphanicism, literary style, loftiness, lugs, luridness, magniloquence, maintien, manner, manner of speaking, manneredness, mannerism, manners, masquerade, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, method, methodology, methods, mien, mode, mode of expression, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, observable behavior, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, outward show, overelaboration, overelegance, overniceness, overrefinement, pattern, peculiarity, personal style, platitudinous ponderosity, playacting, poise, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, port, pose, posing, posture, posturing, practice, praxis, preciosity, preciousness, presence, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, pretext, procedure, proceeding, prose run mad, purism, representation, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, seeming, semblance, sensationalism, sense of language, sententiousness, sham, show, showiness, simulacrum, simulation, social science, speciousness, stiltedness, strain, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tactics, tall talk, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, tone, tortuosity, tortuousness, trick, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, unnaturalness, varnish, vein, way, way of life, ways, window dressing
ROGET THESAURUS
affectation
Affectation
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affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, 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, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan, 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, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
