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Webster 1913 Edition
Mannerism
Man′ner-ism
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
maniérisme
.] 1.
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, behavior, or treatment of others.
2.
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mannerism
MAN'NERISM
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Mannerism
Mannerism
See also: mannerism
English
Noun
Mannerism (uncountable)
- (art) 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.
Related terms
Translations
style of art
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mannerism
mannerism
See also: Mannerism
English
Noun
mannerism (plural mannerisms)
- A group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
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- Exaggerated or effected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
Translations
group unconscious habitual behaviors
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References
- APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2007
Etymology 2
From Italian manierismo, from maniera, coined by L. Lanzi at the end of the XVIII century.
Alternative forms
Noun
mannerism (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.