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/ˈmænəˌɹɪzəm/ · noun
A noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual..
The Inspector looked round. He knew well enough that they were alone in the study at The Turrets, but the action had become something of a mannerism with him.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
artists […] dabblingly pursuing a kind of formalist mannerism merely in the interest of careerism
He generally spoke without academic mannerism, though on occasion he dipped into the over-wrought thickets of eduspeak to find words like “antithetical” or “foci” or “interface.”
Use mannerism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mannerism means A noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual..
Common synonyms include idiosyncrasy, quirk, pose, foible.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The Inspector looked round. He knew well enough that they were alone in the study at The Turrets, but the action had become something of a mannerism with him.
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