233 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pɹɪtˈɛns], [ pɹɪtˈɛns], [ p_ɹ_ɪ_t_ˈɛ_n_s]

Related words: fake, pretend, pretender, masquerade, feign, faux

Similar words for pretence:

• act up (noun)
• attribute (noun)
• cover-up (noun)
• feigning (noun)
• guise (noun)
• make-believe (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• pretence (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• make-believe
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "pretence" in context?

Paraphrases for pretence

Hyponyms for pretence

Hypernyms for pretence

Synonyms for Pretence:

• n.

  • act up (noun)
  • act.
  • attribute (noun)
  • pretense,
  • pretension,
  • pretence.
  • cover-up (noun)
  • cover-up.
  • feigning (noun)
  • feigning.
  • guise (noun)
  • guise.
  • make-believe (noun)
  • make-believe.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • dishonesty,
  • colour,
  • gloss,
  • misrepresentation,
  • cant,
  • imagination,
  • pretext,
  • color,
  • mental imagery,
  • affectation,
  • dissembling,
  • semblance,
  • artificiality,
  • deception,
  • blind,
  • deceit,
  • thing,
  • defence,
  • overacting,
  • lip service,
  • dissimulation,
  • imaging.
  • pretence (noun)
  • simulation,
  • pretending.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • excuse,
  • disguise,
  • practice,
  • protection,
  • fake.

• Other synonyms:

  • make-believe
  • make believe.
  • Other relevant words:
  • imagery.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • flimflam,
  • adopt,
  • mask,
  • insincerity,
  • demand,
  • summon,
  • bluff,
  • story,
  • aspiration,
  • fraud,
  • chicanery,
  • assume,
  • screen,
  • incorrect,
  • stratagem,
  • come,
  • treacherous,
  • loophole,
  • leg-pull,
  • arrogance,
  • describe,
  • inform,
  • performance,
  • copy,
  • faithless,
  • dissimulate,
  • above,
  • unfaithful,
  • mock attack,
  • contrivance,
  • prank,
  • concoction,
  • affectedness,
  • bring,
  • counterfeit,
  • carry,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • posturing,
  • joke,
  • haughtiness,
  • manoeuvre,
  • consider,
  • choose,
  • ambition,
  • feign,
  • direct,
  • extend,
  • cheat,
  • jiggery-pokery,
  • plea,
  • spoof,
  • impression,
  • maneuver,
  • ploy,
  • mannerism,
  • rationalization,
  • ask,
  • get hold of,
  • fakery,
  • covering,
  • allegation,
  • appearance,
  • fiction,
  • escape,
  • consume,
  • stance,
  • scam,
  • Hauteur,
  • attitudinizing,
  • stall,
  • fable,
  • posture,
  • wile,
  • sanctimony,
  • superciliousness,
  • imitation,
  • inordinate,
  • untruthful,
  • imposture,
  • red herring,
  • gambit,
  • untrue,
  • act as,
  • humbug,
  • makeshift,
  • need,
  • insincere,
  • design,
  • false flag,
  • fairy tale,
  • fantasy,
  • immoderate,
  • masquerade,
  • invention,
  • cover up,
  • jest,
  • rationale,
  • dodge,
  • hypocrisy,
  • evasion,
  • inaccurate,
  • figment,
  • cop out,
  • display,
  • require,
  • alibi,
  • cloak,
  • falsehood,
  • Excuseless,
  • artifice,
  • unreasonable,
  • false appearance,
  • claim,
  • pose,
  • cover,
  • concealment,
  • disloyal,
  • distraction,
  • con game,
  • fabrication,
  • pageant,
  • feint,
  • assumption,
  • faking,
  • extortionate,
  • airs,
  • requirement,
  • Double dealing,
  • forgery,
  • sanctimoniousness,
  • artificial,
  • simulate,
  • explanation,
  • stake a claim,
  • call for,
  • excessive,
  • deceitful,
  • Hanky Panky,
  • veil,
  • hypocritical,
  • air,
  • falsification,
  • show,
  • device,
  • trick,
  • duplicity,
  • subterfuge,
  • affect,
  • delusion,
  • pretend,
  • personate,
  • con,
  • tactic,
  • computer simulation,
  • get,
  • front,
  • false,
  • model,
  • Humbuggery,
  • camouflage,
  • smokescreen,
  • erroneous,
  • convey,
  • way out,
  • involve,
  • take on,
  • wrong,
  • induce,
  • fallacious,
  • false move,
  • double cross,
  • trickery,
  • confidence trick,
  • put on,
  • hoax,
  • falseness,
  • sham,
  • ambitiousness,
  • shift,
  • theatrical,
  • superiority,
  • facade,
  • ruse,
  • pretentiousness,
  • necessitate,
  • swindle,
  • exorbitant,
  • ostentation,
  • con trick,
  • steep,
  • mischief,
  • Gloze,
  • Subreption,
  • imply.

How to use "Pretence" in context?

Paraphrases for Pretence:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    pretense, pretension.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    appearance, semblance.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    allegation, smokescreen.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    charade, claim, cloak, contention, excuse, farce, fiction, guise, hypocrisy, posturing, presumption, pretext, sham.

Hyponym for Pretence:

• n.

  • attribute
    artificiality.