affectation, n.All

Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of wbat should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.

Affectation is dignity making an ass of itself.

Affectation is the attempt to boost one's social status by aping the mannerisms of a more prestigious class, as when white athletes greet each other with high-fives, or bourgeois celebrities appear on talk shows wearing hole-in-the-knee jeans.

Affectation is trying to make an impression but making instead an impression of trying.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy, as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villany ; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

Affectation is Seeming to be what we are not in our desire not to be what we seem.