Noun
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBlunt calls Caron's style "perhaps the purest known type of Mannerism in its elegant form, appropriate to an exquisite but neurotic society." Source: Internet
As a stylistic label, "Mannerism" is not easily defined. Source: Internet
Each one of them stands out thanks to their particular mannerism and characteristics, which make it possible to assign them a corresponding zodiac sign relying on the most common personality traits. Source: Internet
Castagno's was the first study to define a theatrical form as Mannerist, employing the vocabulary of Mannerism and maniera to discuss the typification, exaggerated, and effetto meraviglioso of the comici dell'arte. Source: Internet
Hence his orations have no mannerism in them, and are really, as Plutarch says, simple and free from all rhetorical pomp and ornament. Source: Internet
Carter 1991, 128. The word Mannerism has also been used to describe the style of highly florid and contrapuntally complex polyphonic music made in France in the late 14th century. Source: Internet