1) Human behavior 
Accismus is a feigned refusal of something earnestly desired. The 1823 Encyclopædia Britannica writes that accismus may sometimes be considered a virtue, sometimes a vice. The Latin term comes from the Greek word is `ἀκκισμός`, which, according to Britannica, was `supposed to be formed from Acco (Greek: Akko), the name of a foolish ol......
in rhetoric, pretending to refuse something
• (n.) Affected refusal; coyness.
a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refuse something he or she desires. The fox`s dismissal of the grapes in ...
Ac·cis'mus noun [ New Latin , from Greek ....] (Rhet.) Affected refusal; coyness.