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#1
pretense
n.
[
pretence
,
pretending
,
simulation
,
feigning
] the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
. wn
#2
pretense
n.
[
pretence
,
feigning
,
dissembling
] pretending with intention to deceive
. wn
#3
pretense
n.
[
pretence
,
make-believe
] imaginative intellectual play
. wn
#4
pretense
n.
[
pretension
,
pretence
] a false or unsupportable quality
. wn
#5
pretense
n.
[
guise
,
pretence
,
pretext
] an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
. wn