1. The act of giving a false appearance
   - pretence [Brit, Cdn], pretending, simulation, feigning 
2. Pretending with intention to deceive
   - pretence [Brit, Cdn], feigning, dissembling 
3. Imaginative intellectual play
   - pretence [Brit, Cdn], make-believe 
4. A false or unsupportable quality
   - pretension, pretence [Brit, Cdn] 
5. An artful or simulated semblance
   - guise, pretence [Brit, Cdn], pretext

Derived forms: pretenses

See also: pretend, pretentious

Type of: artificiality, color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, gloss, imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery, misrepresentation, semblance

Encyclopedia: Pretense

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