Synonyms and Antonyms of pretense

A pretense, in the unfavorable, which is also the usual sense, is something advanced or displayed for the purpose of concealing the reality. A person more.. A pretense, in the unfavorable, which is also the usual sense, is something advanced or displayed for the purpose of concealing the reality. A person makes a pretense of something for the credit or advantage to be gained by it; he makes what is allowed or approved a pretext for doing what would be opposed or condemned; a tricky schoolboy makes a pretense of doing an errand which he does not do, or he makes the actual doing of an errand a pretext for playing truant. A ruse is something (especially something slight or petty) employed to blind or deceive so as to mask an ulterior design, and enable a person to gain some end that he would not be allowed to approach directly. A pretension is a claim that is or may be contested; the word is now commonly used in an unfavorable sense. Compare ARTIFICE; HYPOCRISY. (noun)

the act of giving a false appearance (noun.act)

pretending with intention to deceive (noun.communication)

imaginative intellectual play (noun.cognition)

a false or unsupportable quality (noun.attribute)

an artful or simulated semblance (noun.attribute)

the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally (noun.attribute)

an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading (noun.attribute)

the ability to form mental images of things or events (noun.cognition)

a misleading falsehood (noun.communication)

the act of deceiving (noun.act)

pretense that your position is stronger than it really is (noun.communication)

something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason (noun.communication)

an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction (noun.communication)

pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression (noun.act)

the enactment of a pretense (noun.act)

a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display (noun.act)

making a false outward show (noun.act)

put forward a claim and assert right or possession of (verb.possession)

imagined as in a play (adj.all)

making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction (adj.all)

make believe with the intent to deceive (verb.communication)

make a pretence of (verb.creation)