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noun
A noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Exaggerated or affected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, described as a negation of the classicist equilibrium, pre-Baroque, and deforming expressiveness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: art, arts, literature, media, publishing
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noun
In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: art, arts, literature, media, publishing
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noun
A style of art developed at the end of the High Renaissance, characterized by the deliberate distortion and exaggeration of perspective and especially the elongation of figures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: art, arts
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noun
a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: affectation, pose, affectedness
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Broader terms: pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
Narrower terms: attitude, radical chic
noun
a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: idiosyncrasy, foible
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Broader terms: peculiarity, specialness, specialty, speciality, distinctiveness
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man English man English -er English manner Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English mannerism From manner + -ism.
From Italian manierismo, from maniera, coined by Luigi Lanzi at the end of the 18th century.
Across languages
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