Definitions for affectation

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affectation af·fec·ta·tion

Spelling: [af-ek-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌæf ɛkˈteɪ ʃən/

Affectation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 459 anagrams from letters in affectation (aaceffinott).

Definitions for affectation

noun

1. an effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; the pretense of actual possession:
2. conspicuous artificiality of manner or appearance; effort to attract notice by pretense, assumption, or any assumed peculiarity.
3. a trait, action, or expression characterized by such artificiality:
4. Obsolete. strenuous pursuit, desire, or aspiration. affection; fondness:

Origin of affectation

1540-50; Latin affectātiōn- (stem of affectātiō) a striving after, equivalent to affectāt(us), past participle of affectāre to affect² (see Examples for affectation

Their affectation is beyond the affectation of woman, and it makes all men sick.

What is a distinctive habit or affectation of yours related to writing?

Whether this was from habit or affectation it was not easy to decide.

What is a distinctive habit or affectation related to the writing process?

There was no affectation of mystery, no attempt at keeping his experiments a secret.

There was no affectation of the fine lady in her self-reproach.

But this is abnormal and rather an affectation of technical skill.

Saturn in your sign will keep things real, refining elements in your make-up that smack of affectation.

Do not however think me guilty of an affectation in what I have said of my brother and sister.

The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation.