different between histrionic vs actressy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin histri?nicus (“pertaining to acting; scurrilous, shameful; wretched”), from Latin histri?nicus (“pertaining to acting and the theatre”), from histri? (“actor, player”) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). Morphologically, the word may be surface analysed as histrion +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h?st?i???n?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h?st?i??n?k/
• Rhymes: -?n?k
• Hyphenation: his?tri?on?ic

Adjective

histrionic (comparative more histrionic, superlative most histrionic)

1. Of or relating to actors or acting.

   Synonyms: actorish, actressy, dramatic, theatrical
2. (by extension) Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.

   Synonyms: melodramatic, overdramatic, sensationalized, stagy

Alternative forms

• histrionick (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

• histrion (obsolete)
• histrionism
• histrionize (rare)

Translations

References

Further reading

• histrionic (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

From French histrionique.

Adjective

histrionic m or n (feminine singular histrionic?, masculine plural histrionici, feminine and neuter plural histrionice)

1. histrionic

Declension

English

Etymology

actress +? -y

Adjective

actressy (comparative more actressy, superlative most actressy)

1. Characteristic of an actress
2. Histrionic or theatrical

Anagrams

• sec'tarys