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Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 18, 2008affectation \af-ek-TAY-shuhn\, noun: 1. an artificial way of talking or behaving put on to impress others; pretense In a culture of electricity and annual holidays, for example, to pace one's work to the rhythm of the seasons or daylight would amount to affectation. I had heard talk that Tosca, for all the dissolute life she led, was a pious person who frequented churches with scrupulous regularity, yet in this conduct I had always suspected a pose, an affectation. I extended a hand out into the air for no reason, a professorial affectation. Wait! my father shouted with an affectation of sudden comprehension. I recognize you! by 1548, "studied display," from Latin affectationem, from affectare "to strive for" | |||||||||
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