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- pronunciation:
- pri
tens
[or]
prih
tens
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun)
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
an act or instance of pretending; sham or fiction.
Her tearful apology was just a pretense since she actually felt no regret for what she had done.- synonyms:
- acting, faking, feigning, fiction, masquerade, sham, simulation
- antonyms:
- honesty, sincerity
- similar words:
- acting, deceit, deception, disguise, fake, falseness, hoax, humbug, imposture, invention, pose, show, trick, trickery
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| definition 2: |
a false or deceptive show, claim, or excuse.
- synonyms:
- act, fabrication, falseness, fiction, hoax, lie, pretension, ruse, sham, show
- similar words:
- acting, affectation, cover, deception, excuse, fake, falsehood, fraud, humbug, invention, masquerade, pretext, trick
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| definition 3: |
affectation or pretentiousness.
- synonyms:
- affectation, air, pretension, pretentiousness
- antonyms:
- sincerity
- similar words:
- display, ostentation, pomp, pomposity, pose, show
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| definition 4: |
the act of imagining or of acting a part, as in play; make-believe.
- synonyms:
- acting, make-believe, pretending
- similar words:
- invention
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| related words: |
appearance, cant, delusion, façade, gloss, guise, hypocrisy, lie, mask |
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