posturing

The assumption of an exaggerated pose or attitude.

Noun

  1. The assumption of an exaggerated pose or attitude.
    • With his "hatred of what was theatrical" (1:124) he is put off by the posturings and attitudinizings of the chief actors. - 1990, Clyde de L. Ryals, A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature:
    • Few political careers start when people are in their 70s, but Hendy is actually relishing it, although he is incensed sometimes by the pointlessness of the posturing by the opposition, which keeps him up late. "The bit...
  2. The behavior of some birds as a means of signalling, etc.

Forms

posturings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of posture

Derived

posturingly