Related Definitions
[n] the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
[n] an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
[n] a false or unsupportable quality
[n] imaginative intellectual play
[n] pretending with intention to deceive
Synonyms
dissembling, feigning, feigning, guise, make-believe, pretending, pretense, pretense, pretense, pretense, pretension, pretext, simulation