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affectationnoun the quality or state of appearing or trying to appear more important or more valuable than is the casea woman of great affectation at social gatherings affectedness, grandiosity, inflation, pretense(or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness arrogance, bumptiousness, complacency, conceit, egotism, hauteur, imperiousness, pompousness, presumptuousness, pride, self-aggrandizement, self-assertion, self-assumption, self-conceit, self-consequence, self-glorification, self-importance, self-satisfaction, smugness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanitydisdain, haughtiness, lordliness, snobbery, snobbishness, superciliousness, superiorityconfidence, presumption, self-assurance, self-confidence, surenessboastfulness, braggadocioaggressiveness, assertiveness, audaciousness, boldness, brassiness, cheekiness, cockiness, forwardness, impudence, insolence, rudenessgrandiloquenceflamboyance, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, mummery, ostentation, ostentatiousness, show, showiness demureness, down-to-earthness, humbleness, humility, lowliness, meekness, modestybashfulness, diffidence, shyness, timiditynaturalness, sincerity pose, air, airs, affectation, mannerism mean an adopted way of speaking or behaving.pose implies an attitude deliberately assumed in order to impress others.her shyness was just a pose air may suggest natural acquirement through environment or way of life.a traveler's sophisticated air airs always implies artificiality and pretentiousness.snobbish airs affectation applies to a trick of speech or behavior that strikes the observer as insincere.the posh accent is an affectation mannerism applies to an acquired eccentricity that has become a habit.gesturing with a cigarette was her most noticeable mannerism in 1548 |