Definition for Posing:

• Puzzling; questioning closely.

Synonyms for Posing:

• adj.

  •pretentious (adjective)
  • la-di-da,
  • ostentatious,
  • deceitful,
  • forged,
  • fraudulent,
  • imitation,
  • mock,
  • forced,
  • histrionic,
  • synthetic,
  • fake,
  • Masquerading,
  • bogus,
  • stilted,
  • pretentious,
  • facade,
  • false,
  • imposture,
  • showy,
  • mannered,
  • theatrical,
  • stiff,
  • Impersonating,
  • ersatz,
  • affected,
  • unnatural,
  • artificial,
  • stagy,
  • counterfeit,
  • studied,
  • overdone.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • sitting,
  • posing.
  •acting (noun)
  • Theatricals,
  • posturings,
  • stooging,
  • playings,
  • characterization,
  • pantomimes,
  • stagecraft,
  • Enacting,
  • feigning,
  • characterizations,
  • Imitating,
  • seemings,
  • seeming,
  • portraying,
  • pantomime,
  • hamming.
  •pretense (noun)
  • mis statement,
  • fakeries,
  • dis simulation,
  • pre-tenses,
  • mis representation,
  • pre-text,
  • dis play,
  • dis simulations,
  • pre texts,
  • mis representations,
  • pre tense,
  • schticks,
  • dis-play,
  • doubledealing,
  • dis plays,
  • pre text,
  • in sincerity,
  • mis-statements,
  • fakings,
  • pre tenses,
  • in sincerities,
  • dis-plays,
  • in-sincerities,
  • dumb acts,
  • mis statements,
  • dis-simulations,
  • dis-simulation,
  • pre-tense,
  • makebelieve,
  • mis-representation,
  • in-sincerity,
  • pre-texts,
  • dissimulations.

• v.

  •pretending (verb)
  • staging,
  • forging,
  • affecting,
  • falsifying,
  • covering,
  • Deceiving,
  • faking,
  • Counterfeiting,
  • Defrauding,
  • Claiming,
  • Disguising,
  • Bluffing,
  • showing,
  • pretending.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • playacting,
  • deception,
  • pretext,
  • positioning,
  • determining,
  • mimicry,
  • dumb show,
  • framing,
  • Preferring,
  • Congealing,
  • grading,
  • meeting,
  • planting,
  • Complicating,
  • identifying,
  • miming,
  • Personifying,
  • semblance,
  • simulacrum,
  • awarding,
  • Suggesting,
  • colouring,
  • delusion,
  • seating,
  • disguise,
  • Localizing,
  • installing,
  • behave,
  • Gifting,
  • Committing,
  • embarrassing,
  • fixing,
  • facing,
  • Acquainting,
  • gilt,
  • enactment,
  • demoing,
  • pretentiousness,
  • Saluting,
  • posture,
  • baffling,
  • Simulating,
  • Humbuggery,
  • directing,
  • readying,
  • falsity,
  • constitute,
  • Positing,
  • bluff,
  • molding,
  • false show,
  • portrayal,
  • lay,
  • posit,
  • humbug,
  • vexing,
  • Mimicking,
  • locating,
  • Estimating,
  • Preparing,
  • Patterning,
  • Nonplussing,
  • incarnation,
  • four-flushing,
  • amazing,
  • playing,
  • mystifying,
  • front,
  • ostentation,
  • Fructifying,
  • show,
  • attach to,
  • peacockery,
  • mimesis,
  • pantomiming,
  • puzzling,
  • Placing,
  • lay down,
  • Displaying,
  • face,
  • dressing,
  • bewildering,
  • Aping,
  • localising,
  • color,
  • perplexing,
  • window dressing,
  • Delivering,
  • airing,
  • Introducing,
  • jelling,
  • Interspersing,
  • representation,
  • Attitudinarianism,
  • investing,
  • affectation,
  • confronting,
  • gloss,
  • dumbfounding,
  • conduct,
  • embodiment,
  • arranging,
  • Basing,
  • bear,
  • dissembling,
  • demonstrating,
  • marking,
  • Adapting,
  • impersonation,
  • fraud,
  • ordering,
  • sham,
  • pose,
  • Ensconcing,
  • personation,
  • pretension,
  • attitudinizing,
  • Presenting,
  • Docketing,
  • performing,
  • reenacting,
  • modeling,
  • Adjusting,
  • posturing,
  • performance,
  • Couching,
  • meretriciousness,
  • rigging,
  • conference,
  • Exhibiting,
  • seance,
  • varnish,
  • Personating,
  • pointing,
  • deceive,
  • deport,
  • coloring,
  • speciousness,
  • Specifying,
  • feint,
  • Reposing,
  • bring down,
  • personification,
  • airs,
  • assembly,
  • carry out,
  • cheating,
  • simulation,
  • assigning,
  • carry,
  • rating,
  • false front,
  • Dissemblance,
  • appearance,
  • Poising,
  • masquerade,
  • comport,
  • Depositing,
  • Aiming,
  • modelling,
  • moulding,
  • parallelizing,
  • stupefying,
  • targeting,
  • session.

Paraphrases for Posing:

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
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• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    causing, raising, Nominating, showcasing, Masquerading, offering, leaving, bringing.

Posing Sentence Examples:

• I doubt he is but a nought posing as a nine, concluded his reverence in a lower tone of voice.

• I had been posing for you and I was tired out, yet it seemed impossible for me to sleep.

Hyponym for Posing:

• n.

  • act
    motion, movement, move, motility.