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Exact Match:

affectation

a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

Synonyms:

• 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