mannerism

noun4

1. •
   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. — 1923
2. •
   Exaggerated or affected style in art, speech, or other behavior.

   • 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.” — 1992
3. •
   In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, described as a negation of the classicist equilibrium, pre-Baroque, and deforming expressiveness.
4. •
   In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language.

noun1

1. •
   A style of art developed at the end of the High Renaissance, characterized by the deliberate distortion and exaggeration of perspective and especially the elongation of figures.