affectation
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affectation |
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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
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Main entries similar to: affectation
act, acting, action, activity, address, aim, air, airs,
appearance, artfulness, artifice, bearing, big talk, bluff, cant, carriage,
color, coloring, command of language, comportment, conceit,
conduct, convolution, custom, deception, delusion, demeanor, deportment, disguise, dissemblance, doing, doings, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, facade, face, fakery, false
front, false show, falseness, falsity, fashion, feint, flatulence, folkway, fraud, front, gaudiness, gesture, gilt, gloss,
goings-on, Gongorism, grandiloquence, guise, humbug, hypocrisy, image, imposture, inflation, insincerity, literary style, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, manners, mask, masquerade, method, methodology, mien, mode, modus vivendi, movements, mummery, ostentation, pattern, peculiarity, piety, piousness, playacting, poise, pomposity, port,
pose, posing, posture, practice, praxis, preciosity, presence, pretense, pretension, pretext, procedure, proceeding, public image, put on, representation,
rhetoric, seeming, self-righteousness, semblance, sensationalism,
sham, show, side, simulacrum, simulation, snobbery, snuffle, social science, speciousness, strain, style, stylistics, tactics, tone, trick, unction, varnish, vein,
way, window dressing
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