Word:
Definition
Translation En -> Es
Translation En -> De
Translation En -> Fr
Translation Es -> En
Translation Es -> De
Translation Es -> Fr
Translation De -> En
Translation De -> Es
Translation De -> Fr
Translation Fr -> En
Translation Fr -> Es
Translation Fr -> De
Affectation
Af`fec`ta´tion
n.
1.
An
attempt
to
assume
or
exhibit
what
is
not
natural
or
real
;
false
display
;
artificial
show
.
Affectation
is
an
awkward
and
forced
imitation
of
what
should
be
genuine
and
easy
,
wanting
the
beauty
that
accompanies
what
is
natural
what
is
natural
.
- Locke.
2.
A
striving
after
.
3.
Fondness
;
affection
.
Noun
1.
affectation
-
a
deliberate
pretense
or
exaggerated
display
Synonyms:
affectedness
,
mannerism
,
pose
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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