AFFECTEDNESS

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 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)

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

affected (speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression)

Sense 2

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)