"affectatious" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From affectation + -ous or + -ious.",
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          "ref": "2004, “Chapter Two”, in The Hidden Handshake: National Identity and Europe in the Post-Communist World (Political Science), Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 54:",
          "text": "At the same time, American intellectual and artistic elites, … help create a sophisticated, if sometimes affectatious urban mentality.",
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        "Pretentious, artificial, fake, sham, feigned; doing something just for show."
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  "word": "affectatious"
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