Other forms: affectations
An affectation is a manner put on to impress rather than felt. A tiresome affectation, an affectation of modesty, without affectation.
The pretence is the whole of it, and without affectation is high praise for a manner. It is a different word from affection, and the two are confused in writing constantly.
1nounaffectationA manner put on to impress rather than felt.
“His British accent was an affectation; he'd grown up in Ohio and visited London only once.”
affectation is a manner.
Latin affectatio comes from affectare, to strive after or feign.
Latin
affectātiō
Middle French
affectation
English, today
affectation
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French affectation, from Latin affectātiō. From Middle French affectation and its etymon Latin affectātiōnem, from affectō (“to feign”). by surface analysis, affect + -ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA