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| 1. | an effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; the pretense of actual possession: an affectation of interest in art; affectation of great wealth. |
| 2. | conspicuous artificiality of manner or appearance; effort to attract notice by pretense, assumption, or any assumed peculiarity. |
| 3. | a trait, action, or expression characterized by such artificiality: a man of a thousand affectations. |
| 4. | Obsolete.
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