NOUN
- a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
- the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others)
How To Use affectedness In A Sentence
- There are varying degrees of affectedness, ranging from near catatonia to individuals that can function independently. At My Table
- They're slight to say the least and ordinary-looking to the point of affectedness.
- The bodily rooted nature of all moodedness, i.e. of all affectedness by the world, implies also that the union of souls in love or friendship can be described suggestively in a poetic language as 'one soul in two bodies' or 'two hearts beating as one'. Archive 2008-02-01
- She had no affectedness anywhere, but was as natural as are all the girls of her generation.
- The formality and scale of her attire, her pose, and her lack of affectedness suggest class and gender and also hyperbole and overstatement.
- In the use of language, according to the communicators narrative view-point, the argument functions as a subject if agentivity is activated and as an object if affectedness is activated.
- What I want is a combination of the adventure aspect of WoW with the world-affectedness of Planescape and the customability of Second Life. My ideal game… « Love | Peace | Ohana
- We embrace our seasonally affectedness not as a disorder but an opportunity. The seventh house is in uranus
- That's the reigning voice, the Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem off-kilter irony, Philip K. Dick with a lobotomy, and you better get with the program, the Manhattan-Brooklyn affectedness, or else. Anis Shivani: Voice in Fiction: A Favorite MFA/Writing Program Shibboleth
- Add in his entertaining surliness and weird affectedness—with his ranch, cop moustache, and drawl, you'd think he grew up in Texas rather than southern California.