Usually means: Feigning disinterest in something desired.
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  1. accismus: Wordnik
  2. accismus: Wiktionary
  3. Accismus: Dictionary.com
  4. Accismus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Accismus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. accismus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Accismus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. accismus: FreeDictionary.org
  9. accismus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. accismus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  (rhetoric) The feigning of disinterest in something while actually desiring it.

Similar:
feigning, play-acting, abusio, hypocricy, feint, apery, simulation, hipocrisy, hypocrisie, hypocracy, more...

Opposite:
acismus

Types:
verbal, ironic, understatement, euphemism, self-deprecation, more...

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Similar:
feigning, play-acting, abusio, hypocricy, feint, apery, simulation, hipocrisy, hypocrisie, hypocracy, more...

Opposite:
acismus

Types:
verbal, ironic, understatement, euphemism, self-deprecation, more...



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