Thesaurus: mannerism

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1. n. Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
2. n. an art style in late 16th century Europe characterized by spatial incongruity and excessive elongation of the human figures.
3. n. a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
4. n. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
5. Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural . . . . But a mannerism which does not sit easy on the mannerist, which has been adopted on principle, and which can be sustained only by constant effort, is always offensive. Macaulay.
6. Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic modeof action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially inliterature or art.Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when themanner, though vicious, is natural . . . . But a mannerism which doesnot sit easy on the mannerist, which has been adopted on principle,and which can be sustained only by constant effort, is alwaysoffensive. Macaulay.
7. n:100 n a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual n a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display