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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
affectation/afekˈteɪʃn/

▶noun behaviour, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress.

■ a studied display of feeling.

– origin C16: from L. affectatio(n-), from affectare (see affect2).

'affectation' also found in these Oxford entries:

air - radical chic - wiseacre

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