ALL meanings of mannerism
man·ner·ism
M m - noun mannerism habitual gesture or trait 1
- noun mannerism affectation or idiosyncrasy 1
- noun mannerism A habitual gesture or way of speaking or behaving; an idiosyncrasy. 1
- noun mannerism a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience. 1
- noun mannerism marked or excessive adherence to an unusual or a particular manner, especially if affected: Natural courtesy is a world apart from snobbish mannerism. 1
- noun mannerism (usually initial capital letter) a style in the fine arts developed principally in Europe during the 16th century, chiefly characterized by a complex perspectival system, elongation of forms, strained gestures or poses of figures, and intense, often strident color. 1
- countable noun mannerism Someone's mannerisms are the gestures or ways of speaking which are very characteristic of them, and which they often use. 0
- noun mannerism a distinctive and individual gesture or trait; idiosyncrasy 0
- noun mannerism a principally Italian movement in art and architecture between the High Renaissance and Baroque periods (1520–1600) that sought to represent an ideal of beauty rather than natural images of it, using characteristic distortion and exaggeration of human proportions, perspective, etc 0
- noun mannerism adherence to a distinctive or affected manner, esp in art or literature 0
- noun mannerism excessive use of some distinctive, often affected, manner or style in art, literature, speech, or behavior 0
- noun mannerism a peculiarity of manner in behavior, speech, etc. that has become a habit 0
- noun mannerism a 16th-cent. style in art characterized by distortion of realistic proportions, contorted figures, an avoidance of classical balance, etc. 0
- noun mannerism A group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual. 0
- noun mannerism Exaggerated or effected style in art, speech, or other behavior. 0
- noun mannerism (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. 0
- noun mannerism (art, literature) In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language. 0