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Type Words
Synonyms affectation, affectedness, pose
Type of pretense, feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation
Has types radical chic, attitude
Type Words
Synonyms foible, idiosyncrasy
Type of peculiarity, specialty, specialness, distinctiveness, speciality

Examples of mannerism

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The children attend the Kindergarten where they learn firstly social mannerism.
From the expressandstar.com
A separate definition of mannerism in all its senses might be good at Wiktionary.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This is contrary to his friendly mannerism prior to completion of the transaction.
From the economist.com
I do use a free dating sights that sires a mannerism for a free dating sights.
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Finney grumbles and hobbles through his part, employing mannerism instead of nuance.
From the time.com
With this meerkat mannerism, I watched president-elect Obama become President Obama.
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According to friends, the issue with the eyes is more than just a mannerism.
From the guardian.co.uk
The performers dig beneath this mannerism to suggest years of buried sorrow.
From the time.com
Pitt opens a window into Beane's psyche with a mannerism-heavy performance.
From the timesunion.com
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  • Idiosyncrasy: a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
  • Affectation: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
  • Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe. ...
  • Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, in which there was a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. ...
  • Ars subtilior (more subtle art) is a musical style characterized by rhythmic and notational complexity, centered on Paris, Avignon in southern France, also in northern Spain at the end of the fourteenth century. The style also is found in the French Cypriot repertory...
  • A group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual; Exaggerated or effected style in art, speech, or other behavior
  • (MANNERISMS) Physical behaviors or 'ticks' pinpointing the uniqueness of the character.
  • (Mannerist) a style using complex surface modelling, ambiguous rhythms and distortion of classical motifs; often witty.
  • An affected or habitual characteristic, as a style of posture or speech, which is considered unprofessional when injected or interlarded into the broadcast persona. Common verbal fillers include um, ah, like, ya know, okay, right, see, get it, you dig, you follow. ...