affectation

Noun

Meaning

An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.

A striving after.

Fondness; affection.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mannerism pose affectedness expo bow-wow show air front act quackery mush mien appearance display simulation

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Antonyms

millstone nature load simplicity hurdle affliction

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Hypernyms

simulation pretending pretense pretence feigning

Hyponyms

attitude radical chic

Phrases with the word

lack of affectation lump of affectation

Examples

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. John Ruskin

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. Horace Mann

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. William Hazlitt

Affectation is a greater injury to the face than smallpox. German Proverb

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

affectability affectable affectated affectational affectationally affectationist