Affectation
Nouns
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affectation
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affectedness etc. adj.
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acting a part etc. v.
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pretense etc. (falsehood) Falsehood, (ostentation) Ostentation
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boasting etc. Boasting. charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity
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pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism
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teratology etc. (altiloquence) Ornament. mannerism, simagree, grimace. conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism. stiffness, formality, buckram
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prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism
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mauvais honte, false shame. affector, performer, actor
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pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist
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grimacier
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lump of affectation, blue stocking, poetaster
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prig
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charlatan etc. (deceiver) Deceiver
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petit maitre etc. (fop) Fop
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flatterer etc. Flatterer
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coquette, prude, puritan.
Adjectives
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affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum
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canting, insincere. not natural, unnatural
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self-conscious
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maniere
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artificial
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overwrought, overdone, overacted
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euphuist etc. Ornament. stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified
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finical, finikin
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mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental.
Phrases
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conceit in weakest bodies strongest works" [Hamlet].