affectedness

Translations

affectednessnoun
affectednesses
pl
The affectedness in his speech made it hard to take him seriously.
Искусственность в его речи затрудняла восприятие его всерьез.
Her affectedness was evident in the way she exaggerated her emotions.
Ее притворство было очевидно в том, как она преувеличивала свои эмоции.

Definitions

affectednessnoun
The quality or state of being affected, especially in a pretentious or artificial manner.
Her affectedness was evident in the way she exaggerated her accent to impress others.
In linguistics, the degree to which an argument of a verb undergoes a change of state or is impacted by the action.
Objects of destruction verbs tend to display high affectedness, as in "The storm shattered the windows."