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Textual thesaurus for "pretence"

(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