pretense

noun

1. the act of giving a false appearance

- his conformity was only pretending

Similar word(s): feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation

Definition categories: act, deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation

2. pretending with intention to deceive

Similar word(s): dissembling, feigning, pretence

Definition categories: communication, deceit, deception, misrepresentation

3. imaginative intellectual play

Similar word(s): pretence

Definition categories: thought, imagery, imagination, imaging

4. a false or unsupportable quality

Similar word(s): pretence, pretension

Definition categories: attribute, artificiality

5. an artful or simulated semblance

Similar word(s): guise, pretence, pretext

Definition categories: attribute, color, colour, gloss, semblance