Noun: affectedness u'fek-tid-nus
- The quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others)
"His affectedness in social situations made others uncomfortable";
- effeteness
- Behaviour, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress
"His upper-class accent was pure affectedness, as he grew up in a working-class neighbourhood";
- affectation, mannerism, pose
See also: affected, unaffected, unnatural
Type of: pretence [Brit, Cdn], pretending, pretense [N. Amer], simulation, unnaturalness
Antonym: unaffectedness