pretense

/pɹitˈɛns/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. the act of giving a false appearance
   “his conformity was only pretending”
2. pretending with intention to deceive
3. imaginative intellectual play
4. a false or unsupportable quality
5. an artful or simulated semblance
   “under the guise of friendship he betrayed them”

Synonyms for pretense

• pretence
• pretending
• simulation
• feigning
• dissembling
• make-believe
• pretension
• guise
• pretext

Words that rhyme with pretense

• defense
• defence
• sense
• tense
• condense
• fence
• offense
• dense
• expense
• incense
• recompense
• commence
• dispense
• hence
• intense
• suspense
• thence
• commonsense
• frankincense
• immense
• whence
• antisense
• bence
• ferenc
• hense
• nondefense
• nunsense
• pence
• pense
• spence