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A deliberate display of emotion for effect
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histrionics
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Histrionics is the debut full-length studio album by the American pop rock band The Higher , released on May 3, 2005. The album cover is a tribute for Pearl Jam 's Vitalogy .
Wiktionary
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n. exaggerated, overemotional behaviour, especially when calculated to elicit a response; melodramatics.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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histrionics \his`tri*on"ics\, n. The histrionic art; stageplaying; acting. Insincere, exaggeratedly emotional or overly dramatical speech or behavior performed to create an impression rather than as an expression of true feeling; feigned emotion.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After Jett's histrionics , I didn't know how much more I could take. ▪ He accused me of histrionics and dubbed me Sarah Bernhardt, after the crown princess of stage and silent movie melodrama. ▪ Mr Mubarak's cautiousness used ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"theatrics, pretense," 1864, from histrionic ; also see -ics .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a performance of play [syn: theatrical performance , theatrical , representation ] a deliberate display of emotion for effect
Usage examples of histrionics.
Thawed enough to relax stiff ideals and his death grip on harebrained histrionics, he stood down, his stout hand released from his sword grip.
At such times she astonished him by taking his most solemn histrionics with flippant incredulity, and even burlesquing them.
Poor Damia, she said in a self-derisive tone, ever since that encounter with that dreadful mind-alien, she's been nothing but a T-, T T- Damia tried out the different grades for size and then discarded them all, along with her histrionics.