Word of the Day:
affectation
What It Means
An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
An unusual mannerism.
An ostentatious fondness for something.
Affectation in Context
“[T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural grace, and heartfelt unobtrusive delicacy.”
Did You Know?
From Middle French affectation and its etymon Latin affectātiōnem, from affectō (“to feign”). By surface analysis, affect + -ation.
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