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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to affectation:   (133 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, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation

Synonyms:
mannerism, pose

Also try:
— Adjectives for affectation: mere, little, much, ridiculous, least, literary, certain, slightest, silly, pure, sheer, more...

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