Affectation
- n. Fondness; affection.
- n. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
- n. A striving after.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.