nonaffectation

Example:His inability to hide the strain in his voice revealed the underlying affectation he had attempted to maintain.

Definition:Exhibition of behavior intended to impress others; artificiality, artifice.

Example:The lecturer's attempt to hide his ignorance failed due to the obvious artifice in his speech.

Definition:Artistic skill, especially in the production of a work of art, as painting or sculpture (used especially in reference to natural artifice, the carving by a stream of a waterfall). Also, an artificial or pretended action or quality, an appearance produced for effect; art, craft, cunning, cleverness.

Example:The students were encouraged to embrace naturalness and nonaffectation, steering clear of any artificiality in their essays.

Definition:The quality or state of being artificial, lacking naturalness, or being imitated or pretended; counterfeit, inauthentic, inartistic, unnatural.

Example:The assertion that the politician was nonaffectational masked a pretense of virtue and a lack of sincerity.

Definition:A false or fictitious appearance, a sham, a facade, a sham or pretence; pretensions; assertion; the act of pretending; an act or statement intended to deceive by suggestion of a quality or condition not really existing.

Example:The company tried to promote the product using nonaffectation and natural appeal, but the artificiality of the marketing campaign was glaringly obvious.

Definition:Created or made by human art or industry, as distinguished from what is natural; made by the action of man rather than by natural processes; manufactured, contrived.