All affectedness synonyms

noun affectedness

• grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
• 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.
• air — Air is the mixture of gases which forms the Earth's atmosphere and which we breathe.
• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
• pretentiousness — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• artificiality — artificial quality.
• affectation — If you say that someone's attitude or behaviour is an affectation, you disapprove of the fact that it is not genuine or natural, but is intended to impress other people.
• pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.