 |
pretence
Found in thesaurus: artificiality, semblance, gloss, colour, color, deception, misrepresentation, deceit, imagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination, dissimulation, dissembling
| Babylon English | Download this dictionary |
pretence
n.
feigning, pretending; false show, false appearance; pretending, make-believe; claim, assertion
| English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia | Download this dictionary |
Pretense
Pretense or pretence, may refer to:
- pretext
- pretexting (social engineering)
- "Pretense" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
- a pretender's claim to the throne
- Accismus
| See more at Wikipedia.org... |
© This article uses material from Wikipedia® and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
| WordNet 2.0 | Download this dictionary |
pretence
Noun
1. a false or unsupportable quality
(synonym) pretension, pretense
(hypernym) artificiality
2. an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
(synonym) guise, pretense, pretext
(hypernym) semblance, gloss, color, colour
3. pretending with intention to deceive
(synonym) pretense, feigning, dissembling
(hypernym) misrepresentation, deceit, deception
(hyponym) bluff
4. imaginative intellectual play
(synonym) pretense, make-believe
(hypernym) imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
5. the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
(synonym) pretense, pretending, simulation, feigning
(hypernym) deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
(hyponym) appearance, show
| Babylon English-Czech | Download this dictionary |
pretence
n.
přetvářka
| Babylon English-Polish | Download this dictionary |
pretence
Rzecz.
pozór
