affectations

noun affectations

• pretensions — the laying of a claim to something.
• airs — affected manners intended to impress others (esp in the phrases give oneself airs, put on airs)
• appearances — the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in Aïda; her first appearance at a stockholders' meeting.
• mannerisms — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
• ways — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.