affectation
Roget-categorie 855
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.2. Discriminative affections
#855.
Affectation
zelfstandig naamwoord
affectation —
affectedness
etc.
adj. —
acting a part
etc.
v. —
pretense
etc.
(falsehood)
544,
(ostentation)
882 —
boasting
etc.
884.
charlatanism,
quackery,
shallow profundity —
pretension,
airs,
pedantry,
purism,
precisianism,
euphuism —
teratology
etc.
(altiloquence)
577.
mannerism,
simagree,
grimace.
conceit,
foppery,
dandyism,
man millinery,
coxcombry,
puppyism.
stiffness,
formality,
buckram —
prudery,
demureness,
coquetry,
mock modesty,
minauderie,
sentimentalism —
mauvais honte,
false shame.
affector,
performer,
actor —
pedant,
pedagogue,
doctrinaire,
purist,
euphuist,
mannerist —
grimacier —
lump of affectation,
precieuse ridicule [Fr.],
bas bleu [Fr.],
blue stocking,
poetaster —
prig —
charlatan
etc.
(deceiver)
548 —
petit maitre
etc.
(fop)
854 —
flatterer
etc.
935 —
coquette,
prude,
puritan.
werkwoord
affect,
act a part,
put on —
give oneself airs
etc.
(arrogance)
885 —
boast
etc.
884 —
coquet —
simper,
mince,
attitudinize,
pose —
flirt a fan —
overact,
overdo.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
affected,
full of affectation,
pretentious,
pedantic,
stilted,
stagy,
theatrical,
big-sounding,
ad captandum —
canting,
insincere.
not natural,
unnatural —
self-conscious —
maniere —
artificial —
overwrought,
overdone,
overacted —
euphuist
etc.
577.
stiff,
starch,
formal,
prim,
smug,
demure,
tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish,
puritanical,
prudish,
pragmatical,
priggish,
conceited,
coxcomical,
foppish,
dandified —
finical,
finikin —
mincing,
simpering,
namby-pamby,
sentimental.
uitdrukking
conceit in weakest bodies strongest works"
[Hamlet].
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