Affectation Synonyms and Antonyms

ăfĕk-tāshən
Artificial behavior adopted to impress others
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. affectedness
  2. air
  3. mannerism
  4. pose
  5. pretense
  6. inflatedness
  7. luridness
  8. manneredness
  9. overelaboration
  10. overrefinement
  11. rhetoricalness
  12. sententiousness
  13. stiltedness
  14. swollenness

Words Related to Affectation

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Affectation Sentence Examples

  • But there was no affectation in her assumption of a becoming bearing or in her picturesque words.

  • There is no affectation about them, and as they come straight from your heart, so they go straight to mine.

  • She's beautiful, truthful, and hilarious, without vanity or affectation, exceptionally clever " .

  • There is a curious affectation about his style - a falsetto note - which, notwithstanding all his efforts to please, is often irritating to the reader.

  • Don't indicate - it is an unnecessary affectation.

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