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affectedness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun affectedness has 2 senses
- affectedness(n = noun.attribute) Array - the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others); Array is a kind of unnaturalness
- affectedness(n = noun.act) affectation, mannerism, pose - a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display; Array is a kind of feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation
has particulars: airs, pose, coyness, demureness, preciosity, preciousness
Derived form adjective affected2
Antonym: unaffectedness
has particulars: attitude, radical chic
ROGET THESAURUS
affectedness
Affectation
N affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan, affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
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