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Definition of affectedness in English: affectednessnoun əˈfɛktədnəsəˈfɛktədnəs mass nounThe character or quality of being affected or pretentious. Example sentencesExamples - The formality and scale of her attire, her pose, and her lack of affectedness suggest class and gender and also hyperbole and overstatement.
- They're slight to say the least and ordinary-looking to the point of affectedness.
- She had no affectedness anywhere, but was as natural as are all the girls of her generation.
- Which is not to say that the Book Fair was a less worthy event: the renovated schoolhouse somehow dispels art world affectedness, and I've always found the setting to be more precious than ironic.
- Add in his entertaining surliness and weird affectedness—with his ranch, cop moustache, and drawl, you'd think he grew up in Texas rather than southern California.
Synonyms pretension, pretentiousness, artificiality, insincerity, posturing, posing, pretence, ostentation, grandiosity, snobbery, superciliousness Definition of affectedness in US English: affectednessnounəˈfɛktədnəsəˈfektədnəs The character or quality of being affected or pretentious. Example sentencesExamples - Which is not to say that the Book Fair was a less worthy event: the renovated schoolhouse somehow dispels art world affectedness, and I've always found the setting to be more precious than ironic.
- She had no affectedness anywhere, but was as natural as are all the girls of her generation.
- Add in his entertaining surliness and weird affectedness—with his ranch, cop moustache, and drawl, you'd think he grew up in Texas rather than southern California.
- The formality and scale of her attire, her pose, and her lack of affectedness suggest class and gender and also hyperbole and overstatement.
- They're slight to say the least and ordinary-looking to the point of affectedness.
Synonyms pretension, pretentiousness, artificiality, insincerity, posturing, posing, pretence, ostentation, grandiosity, snobbery, superciliousness |