affectedness
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Affectedness — Af*fect ed*ness, n. Affectation. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
affectedness — index false pretense, histrionics, pretense (ostentation), pride Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
affectedness — noun see affected … New Collegiate Dictionary
affectedness — noun The state or quality of being affected … Wiktionary
affectedness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Artificial behavior adopted to impress others: affectation, air (used in plural), mannerism, pose, pretense. See HONEST, TRUE … English dictionary for students
affectedness — n. insincerity, state of pretending, being artificial … English contemporary dictionary
affectedness — n. See affectation … New dictionary of synonyms
affectedness — noun 1. the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) • Ant: ↑unaffectedness • Derivationally related forms: ↑affected • Hypernyms: ↑unnaturalness • Hyponyms: ↑airs, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
affectation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Artificiality of manner Nouns 1. (affected quality) affectation, affectedness, artificiality, insincerity, histrionics, ostentation; charlatanism, quackery (See deception); pretense, gloss, veneer,… … English dictionary for students
pretense — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. show, pretension, affectation, sham, imitation, ostentation; makeshift, simulation, excuse, pretext, evasion. See falsehood, vanity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of pretending] Syn. affectation,… … English dictionary for students
