Definition for Pretense:

• an artful or simulated semblance; " under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

Synonyms for Pretense:

• n.

  •
  • evasion,
  • profession,
  • trickery,
  • Double dealing,
  • insincerity,
  • blind,
  • misstatement,
  • act,
  • misrepresentation,
  • fabrication,
  • arrogance.
  •
  • falsehood,
  • subterfuge,
  • wile,
  • ruse,
  • semblance,
  • affectedness,
  • mask,
  • trick,
  • gloss,
  • seeming,
  • airs,
  • appearance,
  • cloak.
  •
  • acting,
  • Dissemblance.
  •
  • face,
  • coloring,
  • false colors,
  • window dressing,
  • put on,
  • veil,
  • Disguisement,
  • color,
  • veneer.
  •
  • title,
  • Dibs.
  •act (noun)
  • stall,
  • false front,
  • feigning.
  •acting (noun)
  • seeming.
  •charlatanism (noun)
  • quackery.
  •color (noun)
  • false show.
  •cover (noun)
  • varnish.
  •depression (noun)
  • hypochondria.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • falseness,
  • fakery,
  • misstatement,
  • untruth.
  •falsehood, affected show; cover (noun)
  • dissimulation,
  • guise,
  • claim,
  • deceit,
  • mask,
  • posing,
  • deception,
  • charade,
  • insincerity,
  • ruse,
  • act,
  • facade,
  • falsification,
  • feigning,
  • acting,
  • shuffling,
  • cloak,
  • fabrication,
  • invention,
  • semblance,
  • schtick,
  • appearance,
  • sham,
  • excuse,
  • masquerade,
  • simulation,
  • veneer,
  • pretentiousness,
  • gag,
  • routine,
  • trickery,
  • artifice,
  • display,
  • subterfuge,
  • pretext,
  • faking,
  • stunt,
  • veil,
  • wile,
  • misrepresentation,
  • dumb act,
  • make-believe,
  • posturing,
  • stall,
  • evasion,
  • fakery,
  • misstatement,
  • affectation,
  • ostentation.
  •imitation (noun)
  • emulation,
  • reflection,
  • duplication,
  • portrayal,
  • representation,
  • mirror,
  • duplicate,
  • parody,
  • replication,
  • parallel,
  • mimicry,
  • travesty,
  • pseudo,
  • carbon,
  • resemblance,
  • sham,
  • simulation,
  • caricature,
  • spoof,
  • reproduction,
  • mockery,
  • burlesque,
  • copy,
  • echo.
  •misrepresentation (noun)
  • false colors.
  •pretense (noun)
  • guise,
  • pretension,
  • dissembling,
  • pretending,
  • pretext,
  • simulation,
  • pretence,
  • feigning.
  •pretension (noun)
  • deceit,
  • impersonation,
  • device,
  • artificiality,
  • fraud,
  • front,
  • forgery,
  • masquerade,
  • pretension,
  • claim,
  • ostentation,
  • facade,
  • imposture,
  • counterfeit,
  • gimmick,
  • imitation,
  • affectation,
  • pose,
  • falseness,
  • disguise,
  • stage,
  • cover,
  • bluff,
  • fakery,
  • air,
  • mannerism,
  • guise,
  • show,
  • charade.
  •pretext (noun)
  • plea,
  • stratagem,
  • loop-hole,
  • reason,
  • smoke screen,
  • affirmation,
  • rationale,
  • white lie,
  • pretext,
  • red herring,
  • alibi,
  • excuse,
  • justification.
  •pride (noun)
  • arrogance.
  •quibble (noun)
  • quibble.
  •tommyrot (noun)
  • bunkum.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • nonsense,
  • airs,
  • false colors,
  • Dibs,
  • Dissemblance,
  • trick,
  • Disguisement,
  • affectedness,
  • window dressing.
  •
  • profession,
  • appearance,
  • semblance,
  • veneer.
  •
  • coloring.
  •
  • cloak,
  • gloss.
  •
  • act,
  • acting.
  •
  • veil,
  • put on,
  • mask.
  •
  • title.
  •
  • face.
  •charlatanism
  • quackery.
  •distortion
  • insincerity.
  •quackery
  • hypocrisy.
  •Other relevant words:
  • fierce,
  • protestation,
  • make-believe,
  • artifice,
  • misstatement,
  • glitter,
  • gasconade,
  • falsification,
  • pretentiousness,
  • stunt,
  • deception,
  • perfidious,
  • feigning,
  • quibble,
  • computer simulation,
  • boast,
  • putting on airs,
  • pageant,
  • faculty,
  • veneer,
  • shiftiness,
  • Dibs,
  • interest,
  • falsehood,
  • flourish,
  • fetch,
  • divine right,
  • gag,
  • Blague,
  • moonshine,
  • Disguisement,
  • authority,
  • vaporing,
  • window dressing,
  • posing,
  • teratology,
  • magniloquence,
  • explanation,
  • speciousness,
  • routine,
  • pretensions,
  • VESTED RIGHT,
  • cloak,
  • rodomontade,
  • reason why,
  • act,
  • puff,
  • vaunt,
  • cover story,
  • false pretension,
  • makeshift,
  • deceitful,
  • profession,
  • Droit,
  • conjugal right,
  • sanctimony,
  • unnaturalness,
  • lordliness,
  • posturing,
  • intense,
  • false,
  • Advocation,
  • false pretense,
  • four-flushing,
  • hypochondria,
  • face,
  • important,
  • property right,
  • prescription,
  • false appearance,
  • splash,
  • subterfuge,
  • playacting,
  • excitable,
  • feign,
  • form,
  • pretence,
  • meretriciousness,
  • insincerity,
  • shift,
  • quackery,
  • stalking-horse,
  • fabrication,
  • acting,
  • trickery,
  • buncombe,
  • splurge,
  • untruth,
  • bombast,
  • hypocritical,
  • bravado,
  • cant,
  • malingering,
  • color,
  • highfaluting,
  • due,
  • self-consequence,
  • taut,
  • imagination,
  • erroneous,
  • title,
  • brilliant,
  • acute,
  • public image,
  • stall,
  • superciliousness,
  • handle,
  • fake,
  • refuge,
  • ruse,
  • bounce,
  • toploftiness,
  • appurtenance,
  • model,
  • bunkum,
  • false show,
  • invention,
  • tommyrot,
  • natural right,
  • shuffle,
  • cover up,
  • smokescreen,
  • ostentatiousness,
  • poor excuse,
  • hypocrisy,
  • jactitation,
  • right,
  • heroics,
  • Peremptoriness,
  • dissimulation,
  • delusion,
  • haughtiness,
  • blind,
  • Braggardism,
  • fervent,
  • crake,
  • Double dealing,
  • call,
  • airs,
  • humbug,
  • hot air,
  • appearance,
  • unfaithful,
  • formalism,
  • tall talk,
  • Shamming,
  • apology,
  • Puffery,
  • feigned,
  • false front,
  • locus standi,
  • stylishness,
  • untrue,
  • flattery,
  • dangerous,
  • decoy,
  • allegation,
  • Ostent,
  • screen,
  • boasting,
  • gas,
  • evasion,
  • wherefore,
  • semblance,
  • burning,
  • loftiness,
  • acting a part,
  • Humbuggery,
  • pompousness,
  • dissembling,
  • mold,
  • why,
  • disloyal,
  • dash,
  • treacherous,
  • inalienable right,
  • imperiousness,
  • Jactancy,
  • solemnity,
  • artificial,
  • simulacrum,
  • attitudinizing,
  • Fanfaronade,
  • veil,
  • seeming,
  • critical,
  • Bluffing,
  • schtick,
  • misrepresentation,
  • self-importance,
  • deceitfulness,
  • gloss,
  • deep,
  • posture,
  • state,
  • dumb act,
  • affectedness,
  • coloring,
  • masterfulness,
  • faking,
  • image,
  • vested interest,
  • display,
  • sophistry,
  • prerogative,
  • pomp,
  • power,
  • ardent,
  • brag,
  • shuffling,
  • highfalutin,
  • varnish,
  • nonsense,
  • cheating,
  • arrogance,
  • colouring,
  • pretending,
  • false colors,
  • ostensibly,
  • cowardly,
  • mask,
  • trick,
  • nervous,
  • anxious,
  • parade,
  • euphemism,
  • special pleading,
  • incorrect,
  • presumptive right,
  • superiority,
  • idea,
  • pomposity,
  • array,
  • strut,
  • put on,
  • feint,
  • vindication,
  • Venditation,
  • fuss,
  • birthright,
  • exaggeration,
  • bumptiousness,
  • demand,
  • gilt,
  • pretend,
  • Dissemblance,
  • wile,
  • falsity,
  • sour grapes.

Antonyms for Pretense:

• n.

  • falsehood, affected show; cover
    openness, reality, honesty, truth, simplicity, frankness, honor, uprightness, truthfulness, quiet.
  • Other antonyms:
    ingenuousness, waiver, naivete, reserve, openness, plainspokenness, actuality, reservedness, genuineness, openheartedness, passiveness, simplicity, retiringness, submissiveness, candidness, diffidence, unassumingness, quitclaim, bluntness, sincerity, truthfulness, bashfulness, outspokenness, reality, directness, quietness, frankness, artlessness, disclaimer, unpretentiousness, guilelessness, naturalness, honesty, mousiness, candor, self-doubt, timidness, release, self-distrust, straightforwardness, timidity, forthrightness, passivity, shyness, transparency, truth, fact.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    bashfulness, bluntness, candidness, candor, diffidence, directness, disclaimer, forthrightness, frankness, honesty, honor, openness, outspokenness, passiveness, passivity, quiet, quietness, quitclaim, reality, release, reserve, self-distrust, self-doubt, shyness, simplicity, sincerity, straightforwardness, submissiveness, timidity, timidness, truth, truthfulness, unassumingness, unpretentiousness, uprightness, mousiness, reservedness, retiringness, openheartedness, plainspokenness.