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Mannerism vs Perseveration - What's the difference?

mannerism | perseveration |

As nouns the difference between mannerism and perseveration

is that mannerism is (arts) a style of art developed at the end of the high renaissance, characterized by the deliberate distortion and exaggeration of perspective and especially the elongation of figures while perseveration is (psychology) uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.

mannerism

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual.
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  • Exaggerated or effected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
    • References
    * APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2007

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , from (maniera), coined by at the end of the XVIII century.

    Alternative forms

    * Mannerism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (arts, literature) In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, described as a negation of the classicist equilibrium, pre-Baroque, and deforming expressiveness.
  • (arts, literature) In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language.

    • perseveration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (psychology) Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.
  • (psychology) The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus.
  • The act or an instance of persevering; perseverance.
  • Argument by repetition; a mantra.
  • * 2006 Feb. 1, Mark Furlong, " Just keep walking: shame has become passe, a victim of a culture that views it as an impediment to achieving one's own ends. But at what cost to how we treat others. (The ‘Me’ Revolution)," Arena Magazine :
    • Being subjected to this mantra once more re-evokes the perseveration we routinely suffer in the moral ambiguity characterising our supposedly post-politics milieu.
  • * 2009 Sep. 23, Richard B. Hoppe, " Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience," pandasthumb.org :
    • Perseveration with demonstrably false arguments. This is illustrated for creationism by the ability to construct an Index to Creationist Claims which describes the plethora of such false arguments, rebutted over and over in the scientific literature but persisted in by creationists.