mannerism

See also: Mannerism

English

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From manner +‎ -ism.

mannerism (countable and uncountable, plural mannerisms)

A noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
  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 affected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
- 1984, Rasheed Araeen, Guy Brett, Making myself visible:
  artists […] dabblingly pursuing a kind of formalist mannerism merely in the interest of careerism
- 1992, C Fraser Smith, Lenny, Lefty, and the Chancellor:
  He generally spoke without academic mannerism, though on occasion he dipped into the over-wrought thickets of eduspeak to find words like “antithetical” or “foci” or “interface.”

habitual behavior

Finnish: maneeri (fi)
French: manie (fr) f, tic (fr) m, maniérisme (fr) m
German: Maniertheit f, Manier (de) f
Irish: faisean m, gothaíocht f, nósúlacht f, snas m
Russian: мане́рность (ru) f (manérnostʹ), маньери́зм (ru) m (manʹjerízm) (West European style in literature, etc.)

exaggerated or affected style

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From Italian manierismo, from maniera, coined by Luigi Lanzi at the end of the 18^th century.

mannerism (countable and uncountable, plural mannerisms)

(art, 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.
(art, literature) In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language.