posturing

posturing (plural posturings)

1. The assumption of an exaggerated pose or attitude.
   • 1990, Clyde de L. Ryals, A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature:

     With his "hatred of what was theatrical" (1:124) he is put off by the posturings and attitudinizings of the chief actors.

2. The behaviour of some birds as a means of signalling etc.

posturing

1. present participle and gerund of posture

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