Ostentation vs Affectation - What's the difference?
ostentation | affectation |
Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
(obsolete) A show or spectacle.
* 1599 ,
An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
:* {{quote-book, year=1810
, year_published=2009
, edition=Digitized
, editor=
, author=Dr. Samuel Johnson
, title=The Works of the English Poets
, chapter=Life of Gower
An unusual mannerism.
As nouns the difference between ostentation and affectation
is that ostentation is ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause while affectation is an attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.ostentation
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
- And publish it that she is dead indeed:
- Maintain a mourning ostentation ;
Synonyms
* parade * pageantry * show * showiness * pomp * pompousness * vaunting * boasting * See alsoExternal links
* *References
* * *affectation
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage=This poem is strongly tinctured with those pedantic affectations concerning the passion of love ... }}