Origin: Greek suffix -ism
Mannerism has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
A noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual.
In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, described as a negation of the classicist equilibrium, pre-Baroque, and deforming expressiveness.
A style of art developed at the end of the High Renaissance, characterized by the deliberate distortion and exaggeration of perspective and especially the elongation of figures.