AFFECTEDNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does affectedness mean?
• AFFECTEDNESS (noun)
The noun AFFECTEDNESS has 2 senses:
1. the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others)
2. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
Familiarity information: AFFECTEDNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AFFECTEDNESS (noun)
Meaning:
The quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("affectedness" is a kind of...):
unnaturalness (the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles)
Attribute:
affected; unnatural (speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression)
unaffected (free of artificiality; sincere and genuine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "affectedness"):
airs; pose (affected manners intended to impress others)
coyness; demureness (the affectation of being demure in a provocative way)
preciosity; preciousness (the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined)
Antonym:
unaffectedness (not affected; a personal manner that is not consciously constrained)
Meaning:
A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
affectation; affectedness; mannerism; pose
Hypernyms ("affectedness" is a kind of...):
feigning; pretence; pretending; pretense; simulation (the act of giving a false appearance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "affectedness"):
attitude (a theatrical pose created for effect)
radical chic (an affectation of radical left-wing views and the fashionable dress and lifestyle that goes with them)
