[f. AFFECTED a. I. + -NESS.] ‘The quality of being affected or of making false appearances.’ J.; = AFFECTATION.
1652. French, Yorksh. Spa, xvii. 23. Neither do I do it out of any affectedness to contradict D. Deane’s judgement.
1873. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., 100. There is a repulsive affectedness in this.
