attitudinize

Meanings

1. To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to pose, to posture.
2. To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude.
3. To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses.
4. To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes.

Etymology

From Italian attitudine + -ize, from Latin aptitūdin- + -ize, from oblique stem of Latin aptitūdō, from aptus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, attitude + -ize.