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Synonyms for affectation
noun pretended behavior to make an impression

artificiality
show
pose
appearance
mannerism
simulation

insincerity
facade
pretentiousness
airs
imitation
pretension

front
put-on
air
pretense
sham
false front

going Hollywood
putting on airs
showing off

Antonyms for affectation

reality
personality

honesty
naturalness

simplicity
truth

Concept Thesaurus for word affectation
2. Discriminative Affections
Synonyms – noun

affectation
(ostentation) [more]
shallow profundity
purism
mannerism
foppery
puppyism.
prudery
minauderie
affector
pedagogue
mannerist
bas bleu
charlatan (deceiver)
prude

affectedness
boasting
pretension
precisianism
simagrée
dandyism
stiffness
demureness
sentimentalism
performer
doctrinaire
grimacier
blue stocking
petit maitre (fop)
puritan.

acting a part
charlatanism
airs
euphuism
grimace.
man millinery
formality
coquetry
mauvais honte
actor
purist
lump of affectation
poetaster
flatterer

pretense (falsehood)
quackery
pedantry
teratology (altiloquence)
conceit
coxcombry
buckram
mock modesty
false shame.
pedant
euphuist
precieuse ridicule
prig
coquette

Synonyms – verbs

affect
boast
attitudinize
overdo.

act a part
coquet
pose

put on
simper
flirt a fan

give oneself airs (arrogance)
mince
overact

Synonyms – adjectives

affected
stilted
ad captandum
unnatural
overwrought
stiff
smug
puritanical
conceited
finical
namby-pamby

full of affectation
stagy
canting
self-conscious
overdone
starch
demure
prudish
coxcomical
finikin
sentimental.

pretentious
theatrical
insincere.
maniere
overacted
formal
tire a quatre epingles
pragmatical
foppish
mincing

pedantic
big-sounding
not natural
artificial
euphuist
prim
quakerish
priggish
dandified
simpering

Synonyms – phrases
“conceit in weakest bodies strongest works” [Hamlet].
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Other adjectives related to affectation

Quakerish
aprioristic
assuming
barefaced
bloated with pride
boldfaced
bumptious
conceited
dandified
devil-may-care
domineering
egotistical
fastuous
fire-eating
flatulopetic
foppish
fripperous
garish
gaudy as a tulip
haughty
high and mighty
high-mettled
high-sounding
impertinent
in buckram
janty
lofty-minded
magnificent
mincing
obnoxious
orgulous
overbearing
overwrought
perked up
precocious
prim
proud-crested
punctilious
recherché
saucy
self-conscious
self-satisfied
showy
spectacular
starched
stiff-necked
sumptuous
swollen
turgid
unceremonious
vain
wise in one’s own conceit

ad captandum
arbitrary
assumptive
baronial
blown
brazen
cavalier
consequential
dashing
dictatorial
dramatic
en grande tenue
fine
flaming
flaunting
formal
froufrou
gaudy
gay
hauteur
high-flowing
high-minded
high-toned
impudent
inflated
jaunty
lordly
majestic
namby-pamby
on one’s high horses
ostensible
overdone
palatial
pert
presumptuous
proud
prudish
puritanical
ritual
self-admiring
self-flattering
self-sufficient
simpering
splendid
starchy
stilted
superbious
theatrical
ultracrepidarian
unconstrained
vain as a peacock
would be

affected
arrogant
audacious
beauish
bluff
brazen-faced
ceremonial
contumelious
dead to shame
dignified
egolatrous
endimanche
finical
flashing
flippant
forward
full of affectation
gaudy as a butterfly
glittering
hectoring
high-flown
high-plumed
hufty-tufty
in Sunday clothes
insolent
la-di-da
lost to shame
malapert
niminy-piminy
on one’s high ropes
ostentatious
overweening
paughty
pompous
pretentious
proud as Lucifer
prunk
purse-proud
roistering
self-applauding
self-glorious
sentimental
smug
stagey
stately
strait-laced
supercilious
thrasonic
unabashed
unctuous
vainglorious

apopathetic
artificial
aweless
big-sounding
blustering
buckish
ceremonious
coxcombical
demure
disdainful
egotistic
euphuistic
finikin
flashy
flushed
free and easy
full of sound and fury
gaudy as a peacock
grand
high
high-handed
high-souled
imperious
in best bib and tucker
intolerant
lofty
magisterial
mimsy
not natural
on stilts
overacted
overwise
pedantic
pragmatical
priggish
proud as a peacock
puffed up
rakish
rollicking
self-confident
self-opinionated
shameless
solemn
starch
stiff
stuck up
swaggering
too-too
unblushing
unnatural
vaporing

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