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histrionic (adj.)
"theatrical" (figuratively, "hypocritical"), 1640s, from Latin
histrionicus
"pertaining to an actor," from
histrio
(genitive
histrionis
) "actor," said to be of Etruscan origin. The literal sense in English is from 1759.