Pretense Synonyms and Antonyms
prētĕns, prĭ-tĕns
The act of pretending
(Noun)
Synonyms:
- pretence
- dissembling
- affectation
- misrepresentation
- falsification
- act
- deceit
- fabrication
- charade
- trickery
- double-dealing
- misstatement
- shuffling
- falsifying
- simulation
- excuse
- insincerity
- profession
- ostentation
- assumption
- dissimulation
- evasion
- equivocation
- prevarication
- egotism
- brazenness
- arrogance
- dandyism
- foppery
- servility
- pretension
- toadyism
- obsequiousness
- sycophancy
- cringing
- truckling
- timeserving
- complacency
- smugness
- priggishness
- prudishness
- coyness
- formality
- stiffness
- blind
- smoke-screen
- make-believe
- feigning
A display of insincere behavior
(Noun)
Artificial behavior adopted to impress others
(Noun)
Synonyms:
Something pretended
(Noun)
Synonyms:
- show
- cloak
- pretext
- mask
- guise
- deception
- gloss
- affectation
- falsehood
- cover
- disguise
- appearance
- excuse
- pretence
- claim
- fraud
- semblance
- subterfuge
- sham
- trick
- lie
- falseness
- color
- affectedness
- coloring
- disguisement
- façade
- assumption
- brazenness
- face
- charade
- false colors
- front
- deceit
- seeming
- fabrication
- façade
- fake
- wile
- masquerade
- false front
- ruse
- feint
- fiction
- flam
- airs
- guile
- veil
- humbug
- mannerism
- hypocrisy
- veneer
- imagined
- insincerity
- window dressing
- occasion
- put-on
- ostentation
- pose
- pretension
- simulation
- smugness
- trickery
- make-believe
A professed rather than a real reason
(Noun)
Synonyms:
A legitimate or supposed right to demand something as one's rightful due
(Noun)
Synonyms:
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