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histrionic / his-tree-on-ik
adjective, noun

1. of or pertaining to actors or acting. (adj)
2. deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech. (adj)
3. an actor. (noun)

Example: The actress complained that her co-star was too histrionic, but she herself was the bigger attention-seeker.

Origin: 1640–50; < L. Latin histrōnicus of actors, equiv. to histriōn- (s. of histriō) actor (said to be < Etruscan) + -icus -ic

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/histrionic

Comments

[pipetti.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I knew of definition #2, of course, but didn't realize it had been originally also about actors.

[beatzz.livejournal.com]

This might be a dorky thing to say but... just... this is like one of my favorite words ever. Heh. I love that it's on here. =P