Synonyms of the word

pretence

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

artificiality

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being artificial or produced unnaturally.
• n. (countable) Something artificial.

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

deceit

• n. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
• n. An act of deceiving someone.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
• n. (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or…

deception

• n. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

dissembling

• n. The action of the verb dissemble.
• v. present participle of dissemble.

dissimulation

• n. The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception.
• n. Hiding one's feelings or intentions.

feigning

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

gloss

• n. A surface shine or luster/lustre.
• n. (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
• v. (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception.
• v. (intransitive) To become shiny.
• n. (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex,…
• n. (countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
• n. (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
• n. (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
• n. (countable) A brief explanation in speech or in a written work, including a synonym used with the intent…
• n. (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law.
• v. (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).

guise

• n. Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as…
• n. External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
• n. Misleading appearance; cover, cloak.
• n. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of guys.

imagery

• n. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
• n. Imitation work.
• n. Images in general, or en masse.
• n. (figuratively) Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
• n. The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
• n. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible…

imagination

• n. The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously…
• n. Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
• n. Creativity; resourcefulness.
• n. A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion; an imagining;…

imaging

• v. present participle of image.
• n. The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of…
• n. The use of mental images to alter a person's perceptions or behaviors.

make-believe

• n. The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.

misrepresentation

• n. Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as,…
• n. Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of…
• n. In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different…

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.

pretension

• n. A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
• n. Pretentiousness.
• v. To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
• v. (construction) To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.

pretext

• n. A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
• v. To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something…

semblance

• n. likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar.
• n. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

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.