Histrionic vs Affected - What's the difference?
histrionic | affected |
Of, or relating to actors or acting.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.
* 1848 , , Oliver Goldsmith'' (review of John Forster, ''Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith''), ''The North British Review , Volume 9: May—August,
* 1990 , , The Great Terror: A Reassessment , 2008,
* 2009 , Peter Bondanella, A History of Italian Cinema ,
* 2010 , Joan Lachkar, How to Talk to a Borderline ,
* 2011 , Neel Burton, Psychiatry ,
influenced or changed by something
simulated in order to impress
Emotionally moved; touched.
(algebra, archaic) adfected
Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation
(affect)
As adjectives the difference between histrionic and affected
is that histrionic is histrionic while affected is influenced or changed by something.As a noun affected is
someone , as by a disease.As a verb affected is
(affect).histrionic
English
Alternative forms
* histrionick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
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page 414,
- Trotsky's vanity, unlike Stalin's, was, practically speaking, frivolous. There was something more histrionic about it. He had shown himself no less ruthless than Stalin. Indeed, at the time of the Civil War, he had ordered executions on a greater scale than Stalin or anyone else.
page 220,
- This lens (known as a carello ottico'' in Italian and a ''travelling optique'' in French) is used sparingly but effectively in ''General Della Rovere during the important bombardment scene inside the prison, which introduces De Sica's most histrionic speech.
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- So, as he keeps her endlessly frustrated, she becomes more histrionic ; and as she projects her emotional, “dirty” parts onto him, he becomes more anal and compulsive.
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- A vicious circle may form in which the more rejected they feel the more histrionic' they become, and the more ' histrionic they become the more rejected they feel.
Derived terms
* histrionics * histrionic personality disorderaffected
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The affected compass was impossible to use, so we got lost.
- He spoke with an affected English accent.
- an affected equation
See also
* affectationVerb
(head)- The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.