Exact Match:
- artificiality
- the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- Gongorism
collapse - an affected elegance of style that was introduced into Spanish literature by the poet Gongora related words >
- preciosity
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- the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined related words >
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- ceremonialism,
- elegance,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exquisiteness,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- hyperelegance,
- legalism,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantism,
- pedantry,
- preciousness,
- preciseness,
- precisianism,
- pretentiousness,
- punctilio,
- punctiliousness,
- purism,
- ritualism,
- scrupulousness,
- unnaturalness
- euphemism
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- an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive related words >
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- amelioration,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- cushioning,
- elegance,
- euphuism,
- exquisiteness,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- hyperelegance,
- indirect,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- mild,
- mitigation,
- mollification,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantry,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- precisianism,
- pretentiousness,
- purism,
- substitution,
- unnaturalness,
- vague
- euphuism
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- an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
- any artificially elegant style of language related words >
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- asiaticism,
- device,
- elegance,
- euphemism,
- exquisiteness,
- figurative language,
- figurativeness,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- floridity,
- flourish,
- flower,
- flowery style,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- hyperelegance,
- image,
- imagery,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- nonliterality,
- nonliteralness,
- ornament,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantry,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- precisianism,
- pretentiousness,
- purism,
- purple passage,
- trope,
- turn of expression,
- unnaturalness,
- way of speaking
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- apparent character,
- appearances,
- artificiality,
- display,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- facade,
- false front,
- false show,
- feigned belief,
- front,
- gaudiness,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- insincerity,
- mannerism,
- mere externals,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- ostent,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- sham,
- show,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- unnaturalness,
- vain show
- airs
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- affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me" related words >
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs and graces,
- arrogance,
- artificiality,
- clannishness,
- cliquishness,
- contempt,
- contemptuousness,
- contumely,
- despite,
- disdain,
- disdainfulness,
- disparagement,
- exclusiveness,
- facade,
- false front,
- false show,
- feigned belief,
- front,
- hauteur,
- highfaluting ways,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- insincerity,
- insult,
- lofty airs,
- mannerism,
- mere show,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretensions,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- ridicule,
- scorn,
- scornfulness,
- sham,
- show,
- side,
- sniffiness,
- snobbishness,
- snootiness,
- snottiness,
- sovereign contempt,
- stylishness,
- superciliousness,
- swank,
- toploftiness,
- unnaturalness,
- vain pretensions,
- vaporing
- hypocrisy
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- insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
- an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction related words >
- Pecksniffery,
- Pharisaism,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- cant,
- casuistry,
- charlatanism,
- charlatanry,
- chicanery,
- craft,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- empty gesture,
- facade,
- fakery,
- false front,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feigned belief,
- front,
- furtiveness,
- glibness,
- goody-goodiness,
- guile,
- humbug,
- hypocriticalness,
- image,
- indirection,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- lip service,
- lying,
- mannerism,
- mealymouthedness,
- mendacity,
- mere show,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- pecksniffery,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- quackery,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- sham,
- shiftiness,
- show,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soft soap,
- stylishness,
- surreptitiousness,
- sweet talk,
- tokenism,
- treacherousness,
- two-facedness,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- underhandedness,
- unnaturalness
- Prospero,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airiness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- false air,
- false appearance,
- false front,
- false light,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- idealization,
- illusionism,
- illusionist,
- illusiveness,
- image,
- immateriality,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- magic,
- magic act,
- magic show,
- magician,
- mannerism,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- prestidigitation,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight of hand,
- sorcerer,
- sorcery,
- specious appearance,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- unactuality,
- unnaturalness,
- unreality,
- unsubstantiality,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- insincerity
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- the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical related words >
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- apparent soundness,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- cant,
- casuistry,
- circularity,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- crossed fingers,
- deceitfulness,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- emptiness,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- facade,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false front,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feigned belief,
- flattering tongue,
- forswearing,
- fraud,
- front,
- goody-goodiness,
- gush,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- intrigue,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- mannerism,
- mealymouthedness,
- mere show,
- misapplication,
- mockery,
- mummery,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oiliness,
- oversubtlety,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- philosophism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rationalization,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- slobber,
- smarm,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- subtlety,
- that flattering unction,
- tongue in cheek,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- unfrankness,
- unnaturalness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- aroma,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- attribute,
- badge,
- brand,
- cachet,
- cast,
- character,
- characteristic,
- command of language,
- configuration,
- cut,
- differentia,
- differential,
- distinctive feature,
- earmark,
- eccentricity,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- facade,
- false front,
- false show,
- fashion,
- feature,
- feeling for words,
- feigned belief,
- figure,
- flavor,
- form of speech,
- front,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- gust,
- habit,
- hallmark,
- hyperelegance,
- hypocrisy,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- image,
- impress,
- impression,
- index,
- individualism,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- keynote,
- lineaments,
- literary style,
- lugs,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mark,
- marking,
- mere show,
- minauderie,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- mold,
- nature,
- oddness,
- odor,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- particularity,
- peculiar trait,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- property,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- purism,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- quality,
- queerness,
- quirk,
- rhetoric,
- savor,
- seal,
- sense of language,
- sham,
- shape,
- show,
- singularity,
- smack,
- specialty,
- stamp,
- strain,
- style,
- stylishness,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- taint,
- tang,
- taste,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- token,
- trademark,
- trait,
- trick,
- trick of behavior,
- unnaturalness,
- vein,
- way
- artfulness
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- the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage related words >
- Gongorism,
- Italian hand,
- ability,
- acuteness,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airmanship,
- animal cunning,
- art,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- artisanship,
- artistry,
- astuteness,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- capability,
- capacity,
- cleverness,
- command,
- competence,
- control,
- coordination,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- craftsmanship,
- credibility gap,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deftness,
- deviousness,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- diplomacy,
- disingenuousness,
- duplicity,
- efficiency,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- expertise,
- facility,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- forswearing,
- foxiness,
- fraud,
- furtiveness,
- gamesmanship,
- grace,
- grip,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- handiness,
- horsemanship,
- hyperelegance,
- hypocrisy,
- indirection,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- know-how,
- low cunning,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- one-upmanship,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- pawkiness,
- perjury,
- practical ability,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretentiousness,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- purism,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- sharp practice,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- style,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- surreptitiousness,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technique,
- timing,
- treacherousness,
- trickiness,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- underhandedness,
- unfrankness,
- unnaturalness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- virtuosity,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- blazon,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- daring,
- dash,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- domino,
- dramatics,
- eclat,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanfaronade,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- histrionics,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- incognito,
- insincerity,
- lap,
- manifestation,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- mummery,
- obverse,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- protective coloration,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- stylishness,
- theatrics,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vaunt,
- veil,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask,
- window dressing
- pretense
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- the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
- imaginative intellectual play
- pretending with intention to deceive related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- air,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- playacting,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- refuge,
- representation,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stated cause,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- title,
- trick,
- underlying reason,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
- facade
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- the face or front of a building
- a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- anteriority,
- apology,
- apparent character,
- appearance,
- appearances,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- border,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- cheating,
- circumference,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cortex,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- covering,
- crust,
- deception,
- delusion,
- device,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- envelope,
- epidermis,
- excuse,
- exterior,
- exteriors,
- external,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fringe,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- head,
- heading,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- integument,
- lame excuse,
- lap,
- lineaments,
- locus standi,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere externals,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- obverse,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- outer face,
- outer layer,
- outer side,
- outer skin,
- outline,
- outside,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- periphery,
- playacting,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- refuge,
- representation,
- rind,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- shell,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- skin,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- superficiality,
- superficies,
- superstratum,
- surface,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- top,
- trick,
- unnaturalness,
- vain show,
- varnish,
- veil,
- veneer,
- window dressing
- pretension
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- a false or unsupportable quality
- the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort" related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- ambitions,
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- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
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