Definition for Pretense:

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

Synonyms for Pretense:

• n.

  •
  • lie,
  • cloak,
  • wile,
  • seeming,
  • gloss,
  • ruse.
  •
  • honest,
  • true.
  •
  • owned,
  • request.
  •act (noun)
  • feigning,
  • dissimilation,
  • shuck and jive,
  • phonies,
  • chasers,
  • stall,
  • false front,
  • chaser,
  • stance.
  •acting (noun)
  • stagecraft,
  • characterizations,
  • Enacting,
  • characterization,
  • posturings,
  • playings,
  • Imitating,
  • portraying,
  • pantomimes,
  • Theatricals,
  • stooging,
  • seemings,
  • pantomime,
  • hamming.
  •affectation (noun)
  • putting air,
  • going hollywoods,
  • putting airs,
  • putting on air.
  •bluff (noun)
  • braggings,
  • jivings.
  •cant (noun)
  • dis-honesty,
  • pecksnifferies,
  • sham holinesses,
  • hypo-criticalness,
  • hypocriticalnesses,
  • affected pieties,
  • hypo criticalnesses,
  • pharisaicalnesses,
  • hypo criticalness,
  • hypo-criticalnesses,
  • dis honesties,
  • dis honesty,
  • dis-honesties.
  •claim (noun)
  • counter claims,
  • re-quests,
  • counter claim,
  • re quests,
  • counter-claims.
  •color (noun)
  • false show.
  •cover (noun)
  • tarp,
  • sheet,
  • window-dressing,
  • varnish,
  • teguments,
  • tegument,
  • TARPS,
  • fig leaf,
  • tent.
  •cover-up (noun)
  • dis-simulations,
  • smoke-screens,
  • hush ups,
  • dissimulations,
  • maskings,
  • veil secrecy,
  • closetings,
  • dis guising,
  • dis-simulation,
  • placing under wrap,
  • hushups,
  • dis simulations,
  • dis simulation,
  • seal secrecy,
  • dis-guising,
  • hush-ups,
  • hushup,
  • disguisings.
  •deceit (noun)
  • dis-semblance,
  • cozenings,
  • smoke mirrors,
  • fraudulences,
  • defraudings,
  • mis representation,
  • overreachings,
  • dis semblance,
  • under handednesses,
  • doubledealing,
  • mis representations,
  • dirty dealings,
  • two facedness,
  • ambidextrousnesses,
  • over reaching,
  • mis-representation,
  • mis-representations,
  • under-handedness,
  • under-handednesses,
  • dis semblances,
  • under handedness,
  • over-reaching,
  • entrappings,
  • dis-semblances,
  • twofacedness.
  •deception (noun)
  • deceptiveness,
  • disinformation,
  • boondoggles,
  • beguilements,
  • fast one,
  • cozenage,
  • Defraudation,
  • beguilement,
  • hokum,
  • dupery,
  • boondoggle.
  •decoy (noun)
  • sitting duck,
  • blow off,
  • nark,
  • narks,
  • shills,
  • drawing card,
  • shill,
  • comeon,
  • ensnarement,
  • Seducement.
  •depression (noun)
  • hypochondria.
  •disguise (noun)
  • co-lorings,
  • get ups,
  • get-ups,
  • fakings,
  • dis guises,
  • co-loring,
  • dis-guises,
  • co loring,
  • dis-guise,
  • dis guise,
  • co lorings.
  •dissembling (noun)
  • dissembling.
  •euphemism (noun)
  • floridnesses,
  • purisms.
  •fake (noun)
  • gold bricks,
  • pseudi,
  • pre-tender,
  • pre-tenders,
  • junques,
  • pre tender,
  • four-flushers,
  • four flusher,
  • re-productions,
  • pre tenders,
  • re production,
  • re-production,
  • fourflushers,
  • re productions,
  • four flushers.
  •false colors (noun)
  • false-colors.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • figment,
  • Untruism,
  • hogwash,
  • fable,
  • half truth,
  • half truths,
  • misstatement,
  • falseness,
  • untruth,
  • perjury,
  • fibbery,
  • mis-statement,
  • fallaciousness,
  • fakery.
  •falsehood, affected show; cover (noun)
  • gag,
  • excuse,
  • misrepresentation,
  • schtick,
  • artifice,
  • faking,
  • simulation,
  • falsification,
  • charade,
  • stunt,
  • dumb act,
  • ostentation,
  • pretentiousness,
  • display,
  • shuffling,
  • routine,
  • guise,
  • fabrication,
  • posturing,
  • posing,
  • invention.
  •fooling (noun)
  • clownishnesses,
  • bluffings,
  • skylarkings,
  • teasings,
  • joshings,
  • rowdinesses,
  • making lights,
  • spoofings,
  • roughhousings,
  • kiddings,
  • frolickings,
  • triflings.
  •imitation (noun)
  • echo,
  • portrayal,
  • mirror,
  • reflection,
  • resemblance,
  • replication,
  • caricature,
  • duplicate,
  • carbon,
  • representation,
  • duplication,
  • pseudo,
  • copy,
  • parallel,
  • reproduction,
  • travesty,
  • parody,
  • spoof,
  • emulation,
  • burlesque.
  •pose (noun)
  • attitudinizings,
  • positures.
  •pretence (noun)
  • pretence.
  •pretense (noun)
  • make believe.
  •pretension (noun)
  • device,
  • impersonation,
  • mannerism,
  • stage,
  • front,
  • counterfeit,
  • imitation,
  • air,
  • gimmick,
  • forgery,
  • artificiality.
  •pretext (noun)
  • plea,
  • stratagem,
  • white lie,
  • loop-hole,
  • reason,
  • justification,
  • smoke screen,
  • affirmation,
  • red herring,
  • rationale,
  • alibi.
  •pride (noun)
  • arrogance.
  •put-on (noun)
  • puton.
  •quibble (noun)
  • quiddity,
  • hairsplitters,
  • niggle,
  • Quiddities,
  • hair-splitter,
  • nit-picker,
  • Hairsplitter,
  • quibble.
  •semblance (noun)
  • re semblances,
  • re-semblance,
  • re semblance.
  •sham (noun)
  • pre tends,
  • pre-tends,
  • pre tend.
  •show (noun)
  • dis plays,
  • grandstand plays,
  • dis play,
  • dis-plays,
  • dis-play.
  •title (noun)
  • medal,
  • entitlements,
  • entitlement.
  •tommyrot (noun)
  • bunkum.
  •trickery (noun)
  • fast shuffles,
  • razzle-dazzles,
  • fourberies,
  • bait and switch,
  • razzledazzles,
  • sharp practices,
  • funny businesses,
  • bait switches,
  • razzle dazzles,
  • razzle dazzle,
  • razzledazzle,
  • swindlings,
  • bait switch,
  • bait and switches.

• Other synonyms:

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  • Dibs,
  • false colors,
  • window dressing,
  • Dissemblance,
  • Disguisement.
  •
  • camouflage,
  • veneer,
  • appearance,
  • histrionics,
  • farce.
  •
  • coloring.
  •
  • veil,
  • put on.
  •
  • face.
  •charlatanism
  • quackery.
  •drivel
  • song and dance.
  •prudishness
  • priggishness.

Paraphrases for Pretense:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    pretext, pretence.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    guise, claim, justification.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    excuse, pretension, subterfuge, presumption.

Antonyms for Pretense:

• n.

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

Pretense Sentence Examples:

• Now I have quit all self - pretense, Take charge of what's thine own: My life, my health, and my defense, Now lie on thee alone.

• He made a pretense of entering the hotel, and did not summon the taxi until Mrs. Morton's car was well out of sight up the Avenue.