- pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning - the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
--1 is a kind of deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
--1 has particulars:appearance, show; make-believe, pretend; affectation, mannerism, pose, affectedness; masquerade Derived form: verb pretend1 - pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling - pretending with intention to deceive
--2 is a kind of misrepresentation, deceit, deception
--2 has particulars:bluff; pretext, stalking-horse; hypocrisy, lip service Derived form: verb pretend1 - pretense, pretence, make-believe - imaginative intellectual play
--3 is a kind of imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
- pretension, pretense, pretence - a false or unsupportable quality
--4 is a kind of artificiality
Derived form: verb pretend3 - guise, pretense, pretence, pretext - an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
--5 is a kind of semblance, gloss, color, colour