Affectation

Noun

 * 1) An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
 * 2) An unusual mannerism.

Synonyms

 * eccentricity, mannerism
 * pretension, pose, artificiality, insincerity, pompousness, unnaturalness, air.

Antonyms for Affectation
artlessness, naturalness, naivete, simplicity.

Thesaurus
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

Related terms

 * affect
 * affecter
 * affective
 * affection
 * affectionate