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(noun) simulation, pretending, pretense, feigning
the act of giving a false appearance
his conformity was only pretending
(noun) guise, pretense, pretext
an artful or simulated semblance
under the guise of friendship he betrayed them
(noun) pretense, pretension
a false or unsupportable quality
(noun) make-believe, pretense
imaginative intellectual play
(noun) feigning, dissembling, pretense
pretending with intention to deceive