Synonyms of the word

affectation

• n. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
• n. An unusual mannerism.

affectedness

• n. The state or quality of being affected.

feigning

• v. present participle of feign.
• n. Act of one who feigns; fakery; deceit.

mannerism

• n. A group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual.
• n. Exaggerated or effected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
• n. (art, literature) In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth…
• n. (art, literature) In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects…

pose

• n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
• v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
• v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
• n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
• n. Affectation.
• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
• v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
• v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

pretence

• n. (British spelling) An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
• n. (obsolete) Intention; design.

pretending

• n. The act of imagining; make-believe.
• v. present participle of pretend.

pretense

• n. (US) A false or hypocritical profession.
• n. Intention or purpose not real but professed.
• n. An unsupported claim made or implied.
• n. An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.

simulation

• n. Something which simulates a system or environment in order to predict actual behaviour.
• n. The process of simulating.
• n. Assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true.
• n. (soccer) The act of falling over in order to be awarded a foul, when a foul hasn't been committed.