pretense

Found in thesaurus: deception, dissimulation, deceit, dissembling, misrepresentation, imagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination, artificiality, semblance, gloss, colour, color

Babylon English

Download this dictionary

pretense

n. feigning, pretending; impersonation; false show, false appearance; claim, assertion

v. pretend, feign; impersonate; put on a false show, create a false appearance; claim wrongly, make a false 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...

WordNet 2.0

Download this dictionary

pretense

Noun
1. the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
(synonym) pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
(hypernym) deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
(hyponym) appearance, show
(derivation) feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
2. pretending with intention to deceive
(synonym) pretence, feigning, dissembling
(hypernym) misrepresentation, deceit, deception
(hyponym) bluff
(derivation) feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
3. imaginative intellectual play
(synonym) pretence, make-believe
(hypernym) imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
4. a false or unsupportable quality
(synonym) pretension, pretence
(hypernym) artificiality
(derivation) pretend
5. an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
(synonym) guise, pretence, pretext
(hypernym) semblance, gloss, color, colour

Babylon Spanish-English

Download this dictionary

pretensar

v. prestress

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Download this dictionary

Pretense

(n.)
Alt. of Pretence

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About