PRETENCE Synonyms
There are 14 hypernyms of the word pretence. (close relations)
Best Alternative Words for PRETENCE
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| pretense | nounn | |||||||
noun • the act of giving a false appearance • pretending with intention to deceive • imaginative intellectual play • a false or unsupportable quality • an artful or simulated semblance | ||||||||
| feigning | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • pretending with intention to deceive • the act of giving a false appearance | ||||||||
| dissembling | verbv | |||||||
noun • pretending with intention to deceive • the act of deceiving | ||||||||
| guise | nounn | |||||||
noun • an artful or simulated semblance | ||||||||
| make-believe | adjectiveadj | |||||||
noun • imaginative intellectual play • the enactment of a pretense adjective satellite • imagined as in a play | ||||||||
| pretending | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • the act of giving a false appearance | ||||||||
| pretension | nounn | |||||||
noun • a false or unsupportable quality • the advancing of a claim • the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | ||||||||
| pretext | nounn | |||||||
noun • something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason • an artful or simulated semblance | ||||||||
| simulation | nounn | |||||||
noun • the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training) • (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program • representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) • the act of giving a false appearance | ||||||||
