Mannerism \Man"ner*ism\, n. [Cf. F. mani['e]risme.]
1. Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic
mode of action, bearing, behavior, or treatment of others.
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2. Adherence to a peculiar style or manner carried to excess,
especially in literature or art.
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Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even
agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is
natural . . . . But a mannerism which does not sit
easy on the mannerist, which has been adopted on
principle, and which can be sustained only by
constant effort, is always offensive. --Macaulay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mannerism
n 1: a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to
an individual [syn: idiosyncrasy, foible]
2: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn: affectation,
pose, affectedness]
WordNet (r) 2.0
124 Moby Thesaurus words for "mannerism":
Gongorism, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, aroma,
artfulness, artifice, artificiality, attribute, badge, brand,
cachet, cast, character, characteristic, command of language,
configuration, cut, differentia, differential, distinctive feature,
earmark, eccentricity, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration,
expression of ideas, facade, false front, false show, fashion,
feature, feeling for words, feigned belief, figure, flavor,
form of speech, front, grace of expression, grandiloquence, gust,
habit, hallmark, hyperelegance, hypocrisy, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy,
image, impress, impression, index, individualism, inflation,
insincerity, keynote, lineaments, literary style, lugs, manner,
manner of speaking, manneredness, mark, marking, mere show,
minauderie, mode, mode of expression, mold, nature, oddness, odor,
overelaboration, overelegance, overniceness, overrefinement,
particularity, peculiar trait, peculiarity, personal style,
preciosity, preciousness, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness,
property, prunes and prisms, public image, purism, put-on,
putting on airs, quality, queerness, quirk, rhetoric, savor, seal,
sense of language, sham, shape, show, singularity, smack,
specialty, stamp, strain, style, stylishness, stylistic analysis,
stylistics, taint, tang, taste, the grand style, the plain style,
the sublime, token, trademark, trait, trick, trick of behavior,
unnaturalness, vein, way
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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