Synonyms of the word

masquerade

• n. A party or assembly of people wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other…
• n. (fandom slang) A cosplay event at which costumed attendees perform skits on a stage.
• n. (obsolete) A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See “mask”.
• n. Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious…
• n. (archaic) A Spanish entertainment in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting…
• v. (intransitive) To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.
• v. (intransitive) To frolic or disport in disguise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
• v. (transitive) To conceal with masks; to disguise.

costume

• n. A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular…
• n. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
• n. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
• v. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.

disguise

• n. Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.
• n. (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
• n. The act of disguising, notably as a ploy.
• v. (transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
• v. (transitive) To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
• v. (archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

feigning

• v. present participle of feign.
• n. Act of one who feigns; fakery; deceit.

impersonate

• v. (transitive) To pretend to be (a different person); to assume the identity of.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To manifest in corporeal form; to personify.

mask

• n. A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
• n. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
• n. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
• n. A person wearing a mask.
• n. (obsolete) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical…
• n. (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water…
• n. (fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
• n. (fortification) A screen for a battery.
• n. (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
• n. (Puebloan, anthropology) A ceremonial object used in Puebloan kachina cults that resembles a Euro-American…
• n. (computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
• n. (computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency…
• n. (heraldry) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
• v. (transitive) To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a…
• v. (transitive) To disguise; to cover; to hide.
• v. (transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
• v. (transitive, military) To cover or keep in check.
• v. (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
• v. (intransitive) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
• v. (transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a…
• v. (transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting the associated bit.
• n. A mesh.
• n. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
• n. (Britain dialectal) Mash.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To mash.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
• v. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To bewilder; confuse.

masque

• n. (archaic, in 16th- and 17th-century England and Europe) A dramatic performance, often performed at court…
• n. (archaic) Words and music written for a masque.
• n. (archaic) A masquerade.
• n. Archaic form of mask.
• n. A facial mask.
• v. Archaic form of mask.

party

• n. (law) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
• n. A person.
• n. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
• n. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues…
• n. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
• n. A social gathering.
• n. (obsolete) A part or division.
• v. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
• v. (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
• v. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
• adj. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
• adj. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
• adv. (obsolete) Partly.

personate

• v. (transitive) To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive) To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
• v. (transitive) To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.
• v. (transitive) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
• adj. (botany) Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

pose

• n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
• v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
• v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
• n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
• n. Affectation.
• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
• v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
• v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

pretence

• n. (British spelling) An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
• n. (obsolete) Intention; design.

pretending

• n. The act of imagining; make-believe.
• v. present participle of pretend.

pretense

• n. (US) A false or hypocritical profession.
• n. Intention or purpose not real but professed.
• n. An unsupported claim made or implied.
• n. An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.

simulation

• n. Something which simulates a system or environment in order to predict actual behaviour.
• n. The process of simulating.
• n. Assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true.
• n. (soccer) The act of falling over in order to be awarded a foul, when a foul hasn't been committed.