histrionicismn.
/ˌhɪstrɪˈɒnᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌhɪstriˈɑnəˌsɪzəm/ Histrionic behaviour; pretence, play-acting; exaggerated or excessively theatrical words or behaviour. Cf. histrionism n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > theatrical or exaggerated behaviour
histrionicism1665
histrionisma1682
theatricalness1727
theatricality1837
play-actorism1851
theatricalism1854
performance1864
melodramatics1865
theatricism1872
camping1922
histrionics1922
theatric1929
amateur dramatics1984
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun]
action1540
acting1590
stage-playing1597
interluding1612
play-acting1633
histrionisma1682
theatrics1807
histrionics1824
mumming1861
histrionicism1870
stage play1872
Thespianism1914
1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor xxviii. 238 The Histrionicism of flattery is ascribed to the Harlot.
1851 W. J. Bennett Farewell Let. to Parishioners 158 Now you here observe all the features of histrionicism.
1870 Daily News 13 Dec. His vanity, his half-conscious histrionicism..have been the subject of good-humoured laughter.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule vi. 89 How could this girl have taught herself, in the solitude of a savage island, a species of histrionicism which women in London circles strove for years to acquire?
1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 85/1 The fact of this universal histrionicism, so long observed and at the same time so long puzzling, became now..clear and indisputable.
2004 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 16 May 18 It's for precisely this sort of martyrish, high camp histrionicism that we so love him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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