All affectation synonyms

noun affectation

• artificiality — artificial quality.
• show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
• pose — a movement in which the dancer steps, in any desired position, from one foot to the other with a straight knee onto the flat foot, demi-pointe, or pointe.
• appearance — When someone makes an appearance at a public event or in a broadcast, they take part in it.
• mannerism — 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.
• simulation — imitation or enactment, as of something anticipated or in testing.
• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• facade — Architecture. the front of a building, especially an imposing or decorative one. any side of a building facing a public way or space and finished accordingly.
• pretentiousness — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
• airs — affected manners intended to impress others (esp in the phrases give oneself airs, put on airs)
• imitation — a result or product of imitating.
• pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
• front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
• put-on — an act or instance of putting someone on.
• air — Air is the mixture of gases which forms the Earth's atmosphere and which we breathe.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• false front — a façade falsifying the size, finish, or importance of a building, especially one having a humble purpose or cheap construction.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• affectedness — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
• pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
• quirk — a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
• trait — a distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one's personal nature: bad traits of character.
• habit — an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street.
• characteristic — The characteristics of a person or thing are the qualities or features that belong to them and make them recognizable.