Mannerism

English

Noun

Mannerism (plural Mannerisms)

1. A group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual.
2. Exaggerated or effected style in art, speech, or other behavior.

Noun

Mannerism (plural Mannerisms)

1. (art, literature) In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, described as a negation of the classicist equilibrium, pre-Baroque, and deforming expressiveness.
2. (art, literature) In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language.

Adjectives for Mannerism

inscrutable; developing; humiliating; musical; romantic; severe; compulsive; obstreperous.

Verbs for Mannerism

abandon—; accentuate—; addict to—; affect —; caricaturize—; conventionalize—; endow with—; fall into—; inherit—; jeer at —; mimic—; mock—; ridicule—; satirize —; sustain—; —dandifies; —exemplifies; ——individualizes; —simpers.

Thesaurus

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

Etymology 1

manner

Etymology 2

From Italian manierismo, from maniera, coined by L. Lanzi at the end of the XVIII century.

Alternative forms

• Mannerism

Translations

Noun

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Translations to be checked

French: maniérisme m.

Italian: affettazione, leziosaggine. abitudine, vezzo, posa. manierismo.

References

• APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2007