Words and phrases that have a meaning related to affectation: (130 results)
Often used in the same context:
pretension, pretentiousness, pompousness, pomposity, snobbishness, archness, wryness, snobbery, nasal twang, snootiness, smugness, suavity, pedantry, sunniness, nasality, eccentricity, hauteur, boastfulness, attitudinizing, stuffiness, knowingness, dandyism, artifice, fustiness, snobbism, conceit, ingenuousness, daintiness, shtick, ironist, insouciance, idiosyncrasy, poseur, staginess, priggishness, politesse, smarm, facetiousness, grandiloquence, sneer, poeticism, drollery, worldliness, frippery, whimsicality, hipness, gentility, foppery, punchiness, boyishness, showiness, poshness, sneery, didacticism, orotund, sentimentalism, homeliness, couth, minimalism, solipsist, boulevardier, affectless, intellectualism, lugubriousness, drollness, uptightness, chirpiness, bohemianism, inarticulateness, blandness, unworldliness, twang, bashfulness, prettiness, sheepishness, earnestness, emotiveness, glibness, clownishness, accent, loquacity, artlessness, ness, lilt, idiom, superciliousness, primness, esthete, sentimentality, edginess, conventionality, plainness, trashiness, impishness, englishness, gentlemanliness, sensibility, poesy, vapidness, dreaminess, artificiality, handsomeness, affectations, pretense, ostentation, pretence, bombast, mannerism, frivolity, humbug, vanity, bravado, cant, hyperbole, awkwardness, exaggeration, impertinence
More specific:
attitude
Appears in the definition of:
coyness, demureness, modest, nonliterary, radical chic, simplicity, unliterary, unpretentious
More general:
feigning, pretending, simulation
Synonyms:
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— Adjectives for affectation: mere, little, much, ridiculous, least, literary, certain, slightest, silly, pure, sheer, more...
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