Definition of Affectation

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Definition of Affectation
	Affectation An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. A striving after. Fondness; affection. Related Definitions: Affection, After, An, Artificial, Assume, Attempt, Display, Exhibit, False, Fondness, Is, Natural, Not, Or, Real, Show, Striving, To, What

Affectation Quotations

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Josh Billings

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Jean Baudrillard

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Fanny Brice

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
Lord Chesterfield

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
Francesca Annis

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Jacques Barzun

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Henry Fielding

Affectation Translations

affectation in Dutch is aanstellerij, onnatuurlijkheid
affectation in German is Vorliebe, Affektiertheit {f}, Ziererei
affectation in Swedish is tillgjordhet

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