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Mannerism vs Pretence - What's the difference?

mannerism | pretence |

As nouns the difference between mannerism and pretence

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 pretence is (label) an act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.

mannerism

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
  • 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.

    • pretence

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pretense (American spelling) * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
  • * 1819 , Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Coote, The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George the Second , Volume 3, p.115,
  • *:Great armaments were therefore put on foot in Moravia and Bohemia, while the elector of Saxony, under a pretence of military parade, drew together about sixteen thousand men, which were posted in a strong situation at Pima.
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  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
  • *1995 , Charlie Lewis, Peter Mitchell, Children?s Early Understanding Of Mind: Origins And Development , p.281,
  • *:In pilot work we have used the method described in Experiment 2 on children?s memory for the content of their own false beliefs and pretence' and asked them to differentiate between belief and ' pretence .
  • *2005 , (Plato), Lesley Brown (translator), Sophist , .
  • *:That part of education that turned up in the latest phase of our argument, the cross-examination of the empty pretence of wisdom, is none other, we must declare, than the true-blooded kind of sophistry.
  • (label) Intention; design.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:A very pretence and purpose of unkindness.