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histrionicism en · NOUN

Etymology

From histrionic + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The histrionic art; stageplaying.
    • On the one hand, he considered it almost impossible for a woman to be so disingenuous; on the other hand, 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, and rarely acquired in any perfection? 1874, William Black, A Princess of Thule: